Sleep deprivation + lots of caffeine
(to the tune of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now)

The search for knowledge, the search for truth
Solid like a picture from a photo booth
The underlying cause, the defining proof
I’ve looked at science that way


But there are factors our reductionistic models omit
And human bias and corruption that make you want to quit
And phenomena it doesn’t fit
Science has limits that way


I’ve looked at science from both sides now
As skeptic and believer, and still somehow
I find it a useful heuristic,
So it’s to the methods of science I’ll stick.

(There's a second verse, too, about god, but I haven't written it yet. But there's a pattern.)
- posted by k @ 8:07 PM