Department of Microbiology. Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Sydney School of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2018 Sep;102(17):7257-7263. doi: 10.1007/s00253-018-9169-0. Epub 2018 Jun 27.
The advancement of human knowledge has historically followed the pattern of one-step growth (the same pattern followed by microorganisms in laboratory culture conditions). In this way, each new important discovery opened the door to multiple secondary breakthroughs, eventually reaching a "plateau" when new findings emerged. Microbiology research has usually followed this pattern, but often the conclusions attained from experimentation/observation were either equivocal or altogether false, causing important delays in the advancement of this science. This mini-review deals with some of these documented scientific errors, but the aim is not to include every mistake, but to select those that are paramount to the advance of Microbiology.
人类知识的进步在历史上遵循着一步增长的模式（与实验室培养条件下的微生物遵循的模式相同）。通过这种方式，每一个新的重要发现都为多个次要突破打开了大门，最终达到一个新发现出现的“高原”。微生物学研究通常遵循这一模式，但通常从实验/观察中得出的结论要么模棱两可，要么完全错误，导致这门科学的发展出现重要延误。这篇小型综述涉及其中一些有文献记录的科学错误，但目的不是包括每一个错误，而是选择那些对微生物学发展至关重要的错误。
