# a researcher stands up on a green plastic lawn chair raises a loudhailer at the back of a formal big science presentation and clears their throat the sound of their throat clearing is deafening and echoes down empty hypercorporate hurricane corridors of time they then say: science is simple and science is straight science is lazy and science is late all big science is a point of view science can't do what we want it to science twists non truths about science as living turned inside out // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]