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In The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date, Samuel Arbesman, Kauffman Foundation senior scholar, explains that knowledge should never be assumed, and facts never taken for granted. This applies to any field, as Arbesman reveals through examples in biology, astronomy, health, technology, history, and more.