Science is in crisis. Everyone in the scientific community knows about it but few want to talk about it. The crisis is one of honesty. A junior scientist (like me) asks himself a similar question to Galileo in 1633: how much honesty is desirable in science?
Galileo versus Pope: guess what role the modern scientist plays.
Science Wonderland
According to nearly all empirical scientific publications that I have read, scientists allegedly work like this:
Scientists call this ‘the story’ of the paper. This ‘story framework’ is so entrenched in science that the vast majority of scientific publications are required to be organised according to its structure: 1) Introduction, 2) Methods, 3) Results, 4) Discussion. My own publication is no exception.
Science Reality
However, virtually all scientists know that ‘the story’ is not really true. It is merely an ideal-case-scenario. Usually, the process looks more like this:
Scientists call some of…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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