Keywords, machine extracted. Top 50 words repeated twice, next 100 once, plus phrases. OCR for page 15 responsibility for its contents. Scientists can never prove conclusively that they have described some aspect of the natural or physical world with complete accuracy. In that sense all scientific results must be treated as susceptible to error.
Errors arising from human fallibility also occur in science.
Scientists do not have limitless working time or access to unlimited resources. Even the most respon- sible scientist can make an honest mistake. When such errors are discovered, they should be acknowledged, preferably in the same journal in which the mistaken infor- mation was published. Scientists who make such acknowledgments promptly and openly are rarely condemned by colleagues. Mistakes made through negligent work are treated more harshly.