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Consider A Cow. A Cow Doesn't Have The Problem-solving Skill Of A Chimpanzee, Which Has Discovered How To Get Termites Out Of The Ground By Putting A Stick Into A Hole. Evolution Has Developed The Brain's Ability To Solve Puzzles, And At The Same Time Has Produced In Our Brain A Pleasure Of Solving Problems.

Politicians, Real-estate Agents, Used-car Salesmen, And Advertising Copy-writers Are Expected To Stretch Facts In Self-serving Directions, But Scientists Who Falsify Their Results Are Regarded By Their Peers As Committing An Inexcusable Crime. Yet The Sad Fact Is That The History Of Science Swarms With Cases Of Outright Fakery And Instances Of Scientists Who Unconsciously Distorted Their Work By Seeing It Through Lenses Of Passionately Held Beliefs.

Debunking Bad Science Should Be Constant Obligation Of The Science Community, Even If It Takes Time Away From Serious Research Or Seems To Be A Losing Battle. One Takes Comfort From The Fact There Is No Gresham's Laws In Science. In The Long Run, Good Science Drives Out Bad.

One Day, When I Was Doing Well In Class And Had Finished My Lessons, I Was Sitting There Trying To Analyze The Game Of Tic-tac-toe... The Teacher Came Along And Snatched My Papers On Which I Had Been Doodling... She Did Not Realize That Analyzing Tic-tac-toe Can Lead Into Dozens Of Non-trivial Mathematical Questions.

If You Ask Me To Tell You Anything About The Nature Of What Lies Beyond The Phaneron… My Answer Is “how Should I Know?”… I Am Not Dismayed By Ultimate Mysteries… I Can No More Grasp What Is Behind Such Questions As My Cat Can Understand What Is Behind The Clatter I Make While I Type This Paragraph.