Speaking Up For Scientists

Very interesting response to Nicholas Maxwell's accusation of scientists "deceiving us and themselves about the nature of science" in the Guardian. It does a good job of explaining the nature of science and scientists see it. It also discusses the problem of the public seeing much of scientific research as unimportant. The look at an experiment that is testing one small idea in one small scenario and they don't see how that could possibly matter. But pretty much all big discoveries come from a bunch of little, seemingly unimportant experiments.

Speaking up for scientists | Philip Strange