Science is science, an mode of thought, experiment, and unending review and reconsideration, that has raised the species from hunting and gathering to genetics and the cosmos. The answers science provides may serve people, but people can never order up the answers that they choose. Usually, what people choose to believe about unanswered questions, however well intended, is exploded by research. Often scientists learn the most by figuring out how and why they are wrong. Science advances by thousands of studies many of which seem useless or frivolous until they are put together with the vast array of others to reveal an unsuspected truth. That's when it delivers inventions, insight, cures, and benefits, while punishing premature presumptions about what we know to date. It is a beautiful tool. Having spent more than thirty years working with biomedical researchers, not as one of them, but as a writer and editor on the subject, I celebrate the steadfastness and discipline with which they work, and lament the lack of education in science that would make appreciation and understanding of it more general. We abandon science at our peril, as it is often our only help.