Making a case for science and the scientific method, Rohit Shukla urges us to make the distinction between opinion and fact. Opinions are easy to come by in the age of social media, whereas scientific fact takes care investigation, hypothesis and proof and the attempt to disprove the proof – much to the chagrinned impatience of the public. The result is we abandon science for opinion when it’s convenient, and there’s nothing convenient about science, he argues.