I do want to argue against the theory that science progresses one funeral at a time:
“Science advances one funeral at a time” → this seems to be both generally not true as well as being a harmful meme (because it is a common argument used to argue against life extension research).
I do want to argue against the theory that science progresses one funeral at a time:
Fair enough, I suppose I don’t actually have a vast body of rigorous evidence in favour of that phrase.