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The line between the observer and the observed needs to be re-enforced. Apparently science is a whole list of things nowadays, from evolution to nature. I didn't know nature was science. I did know nature was studied by science. Mainstream media and pop-sci is rampant with this non-sense, promoting science as a way of life, borderline new-age religion. Let's remind ourselves of what science is:
"Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science
Science organizes knowledge, but science is not the knowledge itself. Because the knowledge itself isn't always necessarily good or efficient (e.g. observations of dogs eating their own vomit). Nothing about a dog's habits is scientific - the scientific part coming in data collection and study.
Some people need to learn to separate work from play.
"Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science
Science organizes knowledge, but science is not the knowledge itself. Because the knowledge itself isn't always necessarily good or efficient (e.g. observations of dogs eating their own vomit). Nothing about a dog's habits is scientific - the scientific part coming in data collection and study.
Some people need to learn to separate work from play.
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