(May 13, 2023 at 7:01 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Semmelweis'es study was the only study available back then about the causes of puerperal fever. Thus, the right thing to do was to accept its conclusions, rather than to complain about its shortcomings.
Wrong. The correct course of action is to recognize the paucity of information, and work to generate more data in order to solidify or disprove the hypothesis. That is what science does.
