In these days when everything seems to be being questioned – sometimes honestly, other times with nearly palpable disingenuousness – the idea that someone would actually ask the question “why trust science?” is not particularly surprising. To those of us who have spent our lives studying one or more of the various disciplines of science, or who simply find ourselves naturally turning to science for answers to many of life’s challenges, both large and small, the question at first seems illogical. One might as well ask “why breath air?”
