We all spend several hundred hours in grade school learning about basic science. I can remember mixing sugar, salt, and ice together for some experiment way back in grade 2, and writing what at that time was an exhaustive results write-up (two or three sentences I suppose). How many of us visited a sewage treatment plant, a plastics manufacturing plant or a lab of some sort at the end of our last year in high school? And yet there are those among us, judging by those RDO and RC threads, who still do not understand what is meant by "the scientific method". It just blows me away.
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-Quinn
Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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