a satchel of facts that are imparted upon you and then you regurgitate that for an exam. that s an aspect of science, but it s not the most important part of science. the most important part of science is knowing how to question things and knowing when an answer has emerged that represents, sort of, an objective truth about this world. and if you think science is just that one research paper that reports the one result that you either like or don t like, no, that s not how science works. it s notjust a block of facts. it s not a block of facts nor is it any one research paper. if you have a brilliant idea and you test it and it unearths so much of what has been known before, we re going to double check that, the rest of us, did he cross his t s and dot his i s? let me check the power that s driving his experiment, you know, the wall current, let me check how that was