# a researcher stands up on a green plastic lawn chair raises a loudhailer at the back of a formal big science presentation and clears ir throat eminence front by the who starts to play in the lab background the sound of ir 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