DP Nature of Science: "Normal" Science vs. Paradigm Shifts

Paradigm shifts can turn people’s worldviews upside down. Here are just five areas of thought in which society had to reevaluate prior scientific beliefs:

1. CO2 emissions

2. Evolution

3. Germs

4. Orbit of the sun

5. Quantum mechanics

6. Relativity

Thomas Kuhn:
"Kuhn's highly influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) presented a provocative new theory of progress in science. Instead of the conventional view of science as a cumulatively building enterprise, Kuhn proposed that scientists operate within "paradigms" that are periodically scrapped."