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Jacques Monod used to say, “Never trust an experiment that is not supported by a good theory.” Theory or conceptualization permits us to put order or structure into a vast amount of data in a way that increases understanding. Validly competing theories are most useful when they make testably disprovable predictions. Illustrating the theory–experiment interaction is the goal of this exercise. Stated bleakly, the answers derived from the theory-based experiments described here would impact dramatically on how we understand immune behavior.
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Cohn, M. Ten experiments that would make a difference in understanding immune mechanisms. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 69, 405–412 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-011-0869-1
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