Real Heroes Have the Guts to Admit They're Wrong

Published: Feb. 12, 2018, 5:47 p.m.

What do you do when you discover you\u2019re wrong? That\u2019s a conundrum Daniel Bolnick recently faced. He\u2019s an evolutionary biologist, and in 2009 he published a paper with a cool finding: Fish with different diets have quite different body types. Biologists had suspected this for years, but Bolnick offered strong confirmation by collecting tons of data and plotting it on a chart for all to see. Science for the win! The problem was, he\u2019d made a huge blunder.