Science steps in and looks at the processes of nature and shows us how to tease apart the secrets of their workings, slowly and carefully and with missteps along the way. The missteps are readily acknowledged and re-examined. The successes are retested to make sure they closely approximate (within a high confidence interval) the truth. Then they are once again examined as new questions arise that cast doubt on the answers.
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I knew eventually some crank would find John Ioaniddis' work and manage to misrepresent it against science, well, the first to bat are the HIV/AIDS cranks.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Dudes, I don't even drink soda. Of any kind. Ever.
(a) is this how scientists work, or how scienctists like to portray themselves as working?
(b) sen. franken!