So said the late Francis Crick, who along with James Watson
worked out the basic structure of DNA in the early 1950s. His
remark was quoted in a 1978 New Yorker article on the history of
DNA (sometimes I get a tad behind in my reading, and this
article, yellowed with age, was close to, although not at the
bottom of, my "To Read" pile). It's too bad the American
Diabetes Association doesn't follow Crick's sage advice. It's
hampering their progress and destroying their reputation in the
minds of many people with diabetes. Real science operates as
Crick suggested. You have an idea, and you test it to see if
it's true. If it is, you then try to refine your idea, or you
let other people do that and you move on to a new idea. If the
experimental results show you're wrong, you reject your first
idea and try to come up with a better one. You don't hang on to
some old theory, for example that the earth is flat, simply
because you've invested a lot in promoting that idea. If it's
wrong, it's wrong. Admit it and move on