Wronger than wrong
Introduction '''Wronger than wrong''' (also '''Pauli's proverb''') is a statement that equates two errors when one of the errors is clearly more grave than the other. The mistake was discussed in Isaac Asimov's book of essays ''The Relativity of Wrong'' as well as in a 1989 article of the same name in the Fall 1989 issue of the ''Skeptical Inquirer'':According to John Jenkins, who reviewed ''The Relativity of Wrong'', the title essay of Asimov's book is the one "which I think is important both for understanding Asimov's thinking about science and for arming oneself against the inevitable anti-science attack that one often hears – that theories are always preliminary and science really doesn't 'know' anything. "Along these lines, Michael Shermer even coined it '''Asimov's axiom'''.
See also * False balance* Lie-to-children* Not even wrong* Toy model
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