One must always be careful what conclusions to draw from hindsight. Even where decisions, choices etc. turn out to be wrong based on later information, it does not necessarily follow they were wrong AT THE TIME, based on what was then known and reasonably foreseeable. That might be the right conclusion to draw, but it might not be, it depends. Ex ante, the decision in question well might have been the right one, or the best one. This is true in many aspects of life, not just science. Think of how many marriages go bad, but seemed like (and were) a good idea at the time.
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