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Scientists Say We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life (www.popularmechanics.com)
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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

The whole process is based on realizing that our past assumptions were wrong.

Well... or simply improving the understanding. AFAIK good science doesn't actually assert "rightness" or "wrongness;" rather, it proposes 'this theory seems the best working fit,' with the understanding and open-endedness that it can always be improved, tweaked, or even completely replaced by a better theory.