80% of my high school physics experiments disproved accepted physical laws, like the law of conservation of energy. Or they would have, if any of us had trusted

80% of my high school physics experiments disproved accepted physical laws, like the law of conservation of energy. Or they would have, if any of us had trusted my measurements. In high school, you're not actually doing what they claim you're doing. You are performing a procedure, and then evaluating your results against the "right" answer that you and the teacher are accepting on faith. If your experiment does not match the accepted answer, then one of three things is true: (1) the physical law is actually wrong; (2) you flubbed the procedure; or (3) your measurements were accurate and the physical law is correct, but it is an incomplete description of everything that affects what you are measuring. Cows are not spherical, they do not float in a vacuum for very long without changing in unpleasant ways, friction exists, and your ability to press the buttons on a stopwatch is not very precise. Little-s science always involves faith, and big-s Science really does not want you to think about that. The replication crisis is real, but it's not new. (I guess that's my tl;dr of the article.)