Jost comments on Eliezer apparently wrong about higgs boson - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jost 20 July 2012 11:47:08AM 2 points [-]

If it turns out Higgs Field Theory, and Standard Theory more generally, is wrong, then I'd be reluctant to call it the Higgs Boson

There's different “kinds of wrong” in science, as noted by Asimov in his essay The Relativity of Wrong:

"When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."

Which of these “wrongs” did you mean?