The Missing Word

Whenever someone says, “Follow the science” or “I love science!”, bear in mind the omitted word:

Follow the [political] science.

Which is not really science. I try to explain to my boys that it’s science if you can replicate it in a lab through an experiment. Otherwise, it’s speculation. Which puts all sorts of “science” into the realm of “We’re guessing here,” which includes climate science, paleontology, a lot of astronomy, and social “sciences.”

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