[dnautics]

It would all be so much more convincing if scientists fought for the facts from the start. Having been there, I have seen lots of scientists fight for publications, status, grant money, etc (and the 'winners' coming from that ilk - and not the honest type). It felt like facts at best were a second class citizen in the career of a scientist. I suppose that's just human, but then we shouldn't be making scientific results to such an apotheosis.

[shanusmagnus]

I think the apotheosis is not the result of science, but the method by which those results are arrived at or observed. Do you have a hypothesis, and do you reject/alter that hypothesis based on what you observe in reality? (Or, more literally, based on the manipulations of reality that you perform in the course of experiments?)

Being willing to believe things based on what reality says is the thing we should value. And it should be very highly-valued indeed.