And yet again, “science” can only advance one death at a time.
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What in the world do you mean? No one has died in this article.
I suspect it's a cynical statement about how science advances. In order for new ideas to advance, the old guard clinging to the past must die off. A cynical idea, but largely true,
The reference is to a sardonic remark by the physicist Max Planck: “Science advances one funeral at a time.”