Friends, you will enjoy an excellent column by John Carroll on March 2, 2011. Link is here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/28/DDTE1I0BVH.DTL
We need lots more journalistic efforts like this to help the public understand that no, science does not know all the answers (it isn’t a list of completed explanations), rather, it’s a process that ends up (often) with our asking a lot more questions than we began with. Furthermore, it’s really exciting that there are so many things yet to learn.
And scientists aren’t upset having to say, “I don’t know yet.”
Check it out.