Sherlock Holmes, the fictional sleuth who famously resides on Baker Street, is known for his impressive powers of logical reasoning. With a quick visual sweep of a crime scene, he generates hypotheses ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I continue my ongoing analysis of the ...

Let's focus on two things: the hypothetical deductive method and essential information that you must know to be able to read the science section of a newspaper.

LET me begin by removing misapprehensions. I did not, as Prof. J. B. S. Haldane suggests, attack Prof. E. A. Milne and Sir Arthur Eddington: “Milne”, “Eddington” and “Dirac” were merely symbols to ...