TRVTH
Daily observations of TRVTH in the real world.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Eponymy
No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
-- Stigler's law of eponymy; Stigler credits this law to sociologist Robert K. Merton, thus making the law self-referential
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