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.kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column534_68c346-77 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column534_68c346-77 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column534_68c346-77 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column534_68c346-77 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column534_68c346-77{position:relative;}.kadence-column534_68c346-77, .kt-inside-inner-col > .kadence-column534_68c346-77:not(.specificity){margin-right:20px;margin-left:-20px;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column534_68c346-77 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column534_68c346-77 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column534_68c346-77\"><div 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.kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column534_b204d9-c5 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column534_b204d9-c5{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column534_b204d9-c5 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column534_b204d9-c5 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column534_b204d9-c5\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_4087fc-ec, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_4087fc-ec[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_4087fc-ec\"]{padding-top:2rem;margin-top:-2px;font-size:35px;font-style:normal;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.75);}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_4087fc-ec mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_4087fc-ec[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_4087fc-ec\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_4087fc-ec img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_4087fc-ec[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_4087fc-ec\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h1 class=\"kt-adv-heading534_4087fc-ec wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_4087fc-ec\">Science and the Search for Truth<\/h1>\n\n\n<style>.kb-row-layout-id534_8bafb2-9b > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id534_8bafb2-9b > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id534_8bafb2-9b > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 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.kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column534_26a7dc-c7\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.kt-svg-icons534_a73fc1-5f .kt-svg-item-0 .kb-svg-icon-wrap{color:var(--global-palette4, #2D3748);font-size:50px;}.wp-block-kadence-icon.kt-svg-icons534_a73fc1-5f{justify-content:flex-start;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-icon kt-svg-icons kt-svg-icons534_a73fc1-5f alignnone\"><style>.kt-svg-item-534_0a49c9-48 .kb-svg-icon-wrap, .kt-svg-style-stacked.kt-svg-item-534_0a49c9-48 .kb-svg-icon-wrap{color:rgba(0,0,0,0.51);font-size:18px;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-single-icon kt-svg-style-default kt-svg-icon-wrap kt-svg-item-534_0a49c9-48\"><span class=\"kb-svg-icon-wrap kb-svg-icon-fe_user\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"  fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"  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.kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column534_8c4c46-9a\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><div style=\"color:#00000085;font-size:16px;margin-left:-4rem\" class=\"is-acf-field wp-elements-f95cdf082b8b8a2d2c9ca984f6e1f49d wp-block-mfb-meta-field-block has-text-color\"><div class=\"value\">Editorial<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f90638c611c16a8b011f6dcc25ec6912\" style=\"color:#000000a1;font-size:30px\">Why We Needed a Better Way to Know Things<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_d6d4fb-64, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_d6d4fb-64[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_d6d4fb-64\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_d6d4fb-64 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_d6d4fb-64[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_d6d4fb-64\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_d6d4fb-64 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_d6d4fb-64[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_d6d4fb-64\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading534_d6d4fb-64 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_d6d4fb-64\">For most of human history, we had no reliable method for separating what was true from what merely felt true. Authority, tradition, and intuition governed belief. Consider bloodletting: for thousands of years, across many different cultures, withdrawing blood was standard treatment for nearly any ailment, from indigestion to insanity to acne. Nobody questioned it, because it had always been done. It wasn&#8217;t until doctors began approaching medicine scientifically that the practice was actually tested, and once examined closely, it was abandoned for all but a handful of conditions. Longevity and popularity, it turns out, are not evidence of truth.<br><br>Then, slowly, a different way of thinking took hold. Instead of asking &#8220;what does authority say?&#8221; a new set of thinkers asked: &#8220;How can we find out?&#8221; Galileo dropped objects and rolled balls down inclines. He didn&#8217;t argue about how things ought to fall. He watched how they actually did.<br><br>This shift, from deference to inquiry, from certainty to testing, is the scientific method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6251843a10821ef624094e6067dedaba\" style=\"color:#000000a1;font-size:30px\">What Science Actually Is (and Isn&#8217;t)<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_d8c45f-38, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_d8c45f-38[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_d8c45f-38\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_d8c45f-38 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_d8c45f-38[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_d8c45f-38\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_d8c45f-38 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_d8c45f-38[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_d8c45f-38\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading534_d8c45f-38 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_d8c45f-38\">Here&#8217;s where a lot of public confusion starts: many people expect science to hand them <em>the<\/em> answer, once and for all. But that&#8217;s a misunderstanding of what science does. Science isn&#8217;t a finished set of facts. It&#8217;s an ongoing process of forming a hypothesis, testing it, and revising it when the evidence demands it.<br><br>Writer Danielle Milankov frames this well: a scientist testing a hypothesis isn&#8217;t chasing &#8220;the answer,&#8221; but &#8220;an answer&#8221; based on current observation, one that stays open to future revision no matter how well-confirmed it seems today. Even conclusions we treat as settled, like gravity, remain technically open to revision if new observations ever required it. That might sound unsettling. If our best-supported theories can still change, what&#8217;s the point of any of it?<br><br>But this openness is the feature, not the flaw. A method that could never be revised would have no way to catch its own mistakes. Science&#8217;s provisional nature is precisely what keeps it honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9aaf6b74d0e9e669b6a87fb44a437182\" style=\"color:#000000a1;font-size:30px\">The Engine of Self-Correction<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_5a76fc-6d, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_5a76fc-6d[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_5a76fc-6d\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_5a76fc-6d mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_5a76fc-6d[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_5a76fc-6d\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_5a76fc-6d img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_5a76fc-6d[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_5a76fc-6d\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading534_5a76fc-6d wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_5a76fc-6d\">Science&#8217;s greatest strength isn&#8217;t that scientists are smarter or more honest than everyone else. It&#8217;s that the system doesn&#8217;t depend on any individual scientist being right.<br><br>Peer review, replication, and open publication exist precisely because scientists are just as capable of bias and error as anyone else. The difference is what happens next. When a result can&#8217;t be replicated, when a rival lab finds a flaw, the claim gets challenged and eventually corrected. Newtonian physics, magnificent and useful for over two centuries, was refined by Einstein once observations at extreme scales revealed its limits. Continental drift was dismissed as fringe for decades until plate tectonics vindicated it.<br><br>Compare this to systems of belief that treat error as unthinkable. When a belief can never be wrong, it can never learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-eb9c9170e33b06ace5216feb015a3c01\" style=\"color:#000000a1;font-size:30px\">From Superstition to Medicine<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_574f71-9c, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_574f71-9c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_574f71-9c\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_574f71-9c mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_574f71-9c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_574f71-9c\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_574f71-9c img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_574f71-9c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_574f71-9c\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading534_574f71-9c wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_574f71-9c\">The bloodletting example isn&#8217;t just a curiosity, it&#8217;s a preview of a pattern that repeats throughout history: comfortable, long-held assumptions overturned by people willing to actually test them. Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that doctors who washed their hands between autopsies and deliveries dramatically reduced maternal deaths from infection. He was ridiculed by the medical establishment of his time, and died in an asylum decades before germ theory vindicated him.<br><br>This is what rigorous testing does: it strips away what merely seems true and replaces it with what actually holds up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-34f730e6ebeaac678358cdc954092ea4\" style=\"color:#000000a1;font-size:30px\">Why the Confusion? Media, Not Method<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_4e33d6-03, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_4e33d6-03[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_4e33d6-03\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_4e33d6-03 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_4e33d6-03[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_4e33d6-03\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_4e33d6-03 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_4e33d6-03[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_4e33d6-03\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading534_4e33d6-03 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_4e33d6-03\">If science is this rigorous and self-correcting, why does it so often feel like a mess of contradictions, one study says coffee is good for you, the next says it isn&#8217;t? Milankov points to how science gets communicated, not the process itself, as the real source of public distrust. News media tends to flatten a complex, ongoing process of inquiry into short, sensational, standalone claims, stripped of the context that they&#8217;re one data point in an unfinished investigation, not a final verdict. A single early study gets reported as settled fact; when it&#8217;s later revised or overturned, the public doesn&#8217;t see refinement, they see betrayal.<br><br>Understanding science as a continuous search rather than a vending machine for final answers helps make sense of why it looks the way it does from the outside: not because it&#8217;s unreliable, but because reliability, in this method, comes from constant re-checking rather than fixed pronouncements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6f448f49b45d43b1deff6cc0e2a144d7\" style=\"color:#000000a1;font-size:30px\">What Science Can&#8217;t Tell You<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_760468-d3, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_760468-d3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_760468-d3\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_760468-d3 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_760468-d3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_760468-d3\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_760468-d3 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_760468-d3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_760468-d3\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading534_760468-d3 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_760468-d3\">It&#8217;s worth being honest about the boundaries here too. Science is extraordinarily good at describing how the physical world works, but it was never built to answer questions of meaning, purpose, or moral obligation. Whether a particular action is right or wrong, what makes a life worth living, what someone owes another person, these are questions of value and interpretation, not empirical measurement. Conflating the two is where a lot of public friction over science actually originates: people expect it to settle questions it was never designed to touch, then feel betrayed when it doesn&#8217;t, or when someone tries to smuggle a moral claim in as if it were a scientific one.<br><br>Recognizing this boundary doesn&#8217;t diminish science. It just means understanding what kind of tool it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-30591f3c815d7c6704ca9a80c9fce86d\" style=\"color:#000000a1;font-size:30px\">The Search for Truth at Every Scale<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_c72b4a-c3, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_c72b4a-c3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_c72b4a-c3\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_c72b4a-c3 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_c72b4a-c3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_c72b4a-c3\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_c72b4a-c3 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_c72b4a-c3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_c72b4a-c3\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading534_c72b4a-c3 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_c72b4a-c3\">What&#8217;s remarkable about the scientific method is that the same basic approach, observe, hypothesize, test, revise, works at every scale of reality we&#8217;ve been able to investigate. It works for describing subatomic particles too small to see directly. It works for mapping the expansion of a universe too vast to fully picture.<br><br>No other method of inquiry has this range, and no other method has produced antibiotics, satellite navigation, or a spacecraft capable of reaching Pluto with pinpoint accuracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4c085b1b298359176214383648c48215\" style=\"color:#000000a1;font-size:30px\">Why This Matters Now<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_9b1d01-5e, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_9b1d01-5e[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_9b1d01-5e\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_9b1d01-5e mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_9b1d01-5e[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_9b1d01-5e\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_9b1d01-5e img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_9b1d01-5e[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_9b1d01-5e\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading534_9b1d01-5e wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_9b1d01-5e\">We live in an era awash with information and, simultaneously, awash with confident misinformation. Anyone can publish anything. This makes scientific literacy, not the memorization of facts, but an understanding of how scientific knowledge is built, tested, and revised, more important than at any point in history. It means learning to ask: What&#8217;s the evidence? Has this been replicated? Is this being presented as a final answer, or as the current best understanding?<br><br>The scientific method has no stake in confirming what we want to believe. That&#8217;s precisely its value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-85e21d48f2732f5e0f906ea36f19a2b4\" style=\"color:#000000a1;font-size:30px\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_7e8180-a8, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_7e8180-a8[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_7e8180-a8\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_7e8180-a8 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_7e8180-a8[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_7e8180-a8\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_7e8180-a8 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading534_7e8180-a8[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_7e8180-a8\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading534_7e8180-a8 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading534_7e8180-a8\">Science is not a set of facts that experts hand down for laypeople to accept on faith. It&#8217;s a discipline of humility, a commitment to being proven wrong by the world rather than clinging to what feels right or familiar. It has eradicated diseases, sent instruments beyond the edge of our solar system, and traced the universe&#8217;s origins back to a fraction of a second after its birth, not because scientists are infallible, but because the method itself is built to catch and correct human error.<br>In an age of confident opinions and cheap certainty, that discipline, testing rather than trusting, remains our best tool for finding out what&#8217;s actually true. 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