Bill Harvey: So wrong, it’s right

'A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new.’ The very essence of scientific progress is to test hypotheses and analyse results. Learning from mistakes is integral in evolving knowledge and this was known long before Einstein made his now famous quote.

I mention this because I attended the excellent one day CET event run by Thea Pharmaceuticals held in Manchester recently (full review in a forthcoming issue). A lecture on papilloedema given by Mr Ali Yagan, a neurologist based in the city, noted that, since the Honey Rose case, referrals to his department of suspect disc swelling had risen tenfold.