Published in 1989 by the legendarily prolific Isaac Asimov, the essay “The Relativity of Wrong” makes a couple of punchy points about the progress of scientific understanding through time.
Throughout the essay, he convincingly argues that just because two ideas are both wrong, they are not necessarily equally wrong.
The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that “right” and “wrong” are absolute; that everything that isn’t perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong. However, I don’t think that’s so. It seems to me that right and wrong are fuzzy concepts…
Darn Ecology 