TED Talks: Stuart Firestein - The Pursuit Of Ignorance

This talk is more about philosophical paradigms of thought than it is about science but I feel that anyone with a passion for rationality can appreciate this. What does real scientific work look like? As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein jokes: It looks a lot less like the scientific method and a lot more like "farting around ... in the dark." In this witty talk, Firestein gets to the heart of science as it is really practiced and suggests that we should value what we don't know -- or "high-quality ignorance" -- just as much as what we know.