The Anatomy of an Ecological Controversy: Honey-Bee Searching Behavior
- 1 February 1994
- Vol. 69 (1) , 158-166
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3545297
Abstract
I review literature on the controversy of honey-bee searching behavior, specifically the clash between researchers supporting the odor-search versus dance-language hypotheses. Addressed problems include science philosophy, null models, analytical bias, experimental control, teleology, parsimony, ad hoc explanations, and censorship of scientific findings. Second, I review other literature on scientific philosophy to verify the commonness of these problems throughout the biological sciences.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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