Friday, 18 December 2020, 11:07 am 2020 has been the year of the scientist, or at least the public health scientist. Science is a method, not a discipline; it includes social science, because social science does at least notionally apply the scientific method. While being about the discovery of truth, the scientific method implies that truth (with the exception of identities such as mathematical truths) is unattainable. With the scientific method, 'meaningful' propositions are either false or yet to be falsified. The latter 'yet to be falsified' propositions are regarded as provisionally true. The word 'meaningful' here is a technical word; it relates to propositions that are capable of being tested