Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

Science grows like a weed every year.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.