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[lemit]

Jway,

A lot of those definitions of "science" dip into the definition of "scientific method." To separate the two is like separating human biology from oxygen. I think one of the problems in this discussion has been that separation and the encumbent limpness of a definition of science.

I still have no idea what the "science industry" is, except probably another straw man. (There are enough straw men around here to bed down a herd of cattle.)

I have no idea why you asked about the child on the staircase. Was that to bait oversensitive science types? I'm not a scientist, to paraphrase Voltaire, but I will defend those science types to the death.

I am an editor. I look at language. There's some strange language in your original post. It raised my eyebrows. The muscles of my forehead are getting tired. I'd like to know why you asked about the "science industry" and why you put that child on that staircase. The child wasn't there before you put it there. From your phrasing of the question, the child seems to have been minding its own business and doesn't deserve the calumny that's been indirectly heaped on it.

The child and my eyebrows deserve some relief.

--lemit