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Many a scientist has been seduced by an elegant idea, only to find that aesthetics are not always a good guide to a theory's accuracy. Of all the beautiful theories slain by ugly facts, which most deserved to be right?
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Smith, J. Too good to be true. Nature 400, 223 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/22238
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