#1317 Samuel Arbesman - The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopsen. Today I'm joined by Dr. Samuel Erbusman. He's an adjunct professor and ex lab senior fellow at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. He's the author of three books Overcomplicated The Magic of Cold. And the book we're going to focus on today, the Half Life of Facts, Why Everything We Know. has an expiration date. So Dr. Arbusman, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to everyone. Thank you so much. Wonderful to be chatting with you.

Okay, so just to introduce people to the the topic at hand here because there's a specific build that I I mean to be very honest, I only came across after reading your book that is Centro Cento metrics, and I would like for you to tell us a little bit what that is about. So what is Cento metrics? Yeah, so I mean so scientometrics and and and I would say I feel like now it's kind of part of like a broader like science of science and meta science f kind of field. It's really sort of it is essentially the quantitative study. Of how science is done.

So how scientific papers become published, how they get cited by other scientific papers and kind of the the body of publication kind of grows over time. Um, but it's also how how science is funded and and it really and so scientium metrics kind of is more narrowly often focusing on publication and citation and some of kind of like uh maybe more like economic metrics. Um Uh

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