Eleanor Fort/UCS Why Scientists Shouldn’t Heed Calls to “Stay in Our Lane” Ben Santer, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow, UCS Science Network, UCS | March 15, 2021, 11:23 am EDT This post is a part of a series on It’s hard to lose a long-term friendship. That happened to me last year. My friendship did not survive my unwillingness to “stay in my lane”. I met my friend – let’s call him T – while I was a student at Cornwall School in Dortmund. Back in 1966, our family moved from suburban Maryland to Dortmund in Germany. My parents had to decide whether to enroll me in a German school or a British Army school. Because I spoke no German at the time, they chose the British Army school.