What IS this thing called SCIENCE?

It would seem to be a good place to start with a definition of science, although definitions always eventually bring up difficulties. They have usefulness within restricted discussions and should be abandoned or rejigged in cases of failure to reach agreement

Such definitions as

do not help the person first trying to understand if that person has little knowledge including that of scientific method.

It MAY be helpful to think that science is not a ‘body’ –a group of scientists or a set of words and diagrams in a textbook, but to understand  that it is a set of processes

It is always important to distinguish the processes of science from the actual conclusions from these processes. Processes can be refined and conclusions changed.

In this blog, we will try to consider science as a
‘Set of Processes’