Anatomy of Scientific Confrontation

The book is devoted to the analysis of phenomena, which turned out to be the central point of the most irreconcilable contradictions in the history of the biology of the XX century, the controversy turned around the so-called bees" dances. According to one point of view, they perform the "language" function, by which the bee, aware of the location of the food source, informs other members of the community about it. Another hypothesis is based on the ideas of the smell, as the leading stimulus in the behavior of the bee-collector nectar. In the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. The question was repeatedly discussed with the participation of a number of outstanding biologists. Using the example of confrontation around the question, whether the dance performs the bees "Language function", the inner springs of scientific progress and socio-psychological factors that brave it are considered. Such a brake is most often the commitment of scientists of the dominant paradigm (term of the philosopher and historian of science of science. The book introduces a reader with basic information about philosophy and science methodology. It is a strict document on the history of the struggle of ideas for more than half a century of biology history. Its value, as an introduction to the methodology of science for young biologic scientists, is difficult to overestimate. This layer of knowledge reveals the deep essence of the scientific search process, which beginner researchers are strikingly unrecognized, because they do not receive any special training on this subject