Endless uncertainty in research - Stuart Firestein

I think that the most interesting aspect of this video that will affect my own future is Firestein’s framing of the relationship between scientific uncertainty about the future and wanting to know more about the future. He mentioned the topic of biologists conducting experiments in hopes of getting to answers for questions, but these answers, more often than not, only bring up more questions. This endless cycles of questions, unknowns, and uncertainty is an interesting way to think about science. I think that this fact will certainly get me to read more into the “Discussion” and “Conclusion” section of any article which I usually associate with a summary of the entire article, particularly the conclusion part. But I do wonder whether every I read article also evidently brings on an endless cycle of questioning. This will also help me in understanding any articles I might write and generalizing its findings to the rest of the field, yet also understanding that my research will bring more unknowns and uncertainty — it is funny to think about how questions from research arise from research and how this feedback loop grows as the field grows.