That's true. Alarmingly, medicine is pretty badly affected, though! Basic science seems to do better. And as computer people, our house is not clean either, de

That's true. Alarmingly, medicine is pretty badly affected, though! Basic science seems to do better. And as computer people, our house is not clean either, despite the formal character of computer science. Empirical results in computer science, demos and benchmarking done in the field, and more, also matter and are often non-reproducible just a few years after publication— if source code is provided with the paper at all, which it often has not been. Science is amazing, both for its processes and achievements. But there's lots of important work being done and yet-to-be-done on science itself. Critical thinking is essential to that work, and it goes beyond formal reasoning or puzzle-solving in the small.