Context is Key

In the social sciences, failure to replicate a successful social program (The Boston Gun Project' is just one famous example) - due to implementer or population character or other demographic/ cultural differences is well known. In Realistic Evaluation - Pawson and Tilley    call this the "Context - mechanism - outcome configuration."

The context of how Fleming got that particularly powerful strain of Penicillin - how he recognized it and why he kept the strain alive is fascinating. In fact, in the veracious (as opposed to mythical) history of the discovery of Penicillin as a systemic medicine context is the key.

In all the sciences, the context of the mechanism of discovery is key to understanding the process of discovery

Consequently, in light of new discoveries about the context of Darwin's and Wallace's claimed 'independent' discoveries of Matthew's prior-published theory, the new problems that Darwinists now have to solve are:

 If we are ever to learn how to optimize conditions and skills to enhance our chances of making more important discoveries (and avoiding missing them) context is all important.

I'm personally interested in context in terms of the history of the discovery of natural selection.Because the New Data    means the story that Darwin and Wallace independently discovered the theory free of any influence from Matthew's (1831) prior publication of it seems improbable in light of the fact (context of discovery) that their associates, correspondents and influencers are newly discovered to have cited Matthew's book years before 1858.

See the comments section of another blog post to see who got me thinking about context.