Data is a result, often taken as a feature to be interpreted. To be considered a test of hypothesis, a confirmation or challenge to theory. But does data mean science? Does the set of numbers mangled by freshmen in econ classes across this world, does that process mean they are engaged in science? No. The science they are doing is at most “statistics” but since they do that so badly, applying it to anything at hand, means that they don’t do it well enough to be credible science. Our universities mill out useless scientists, schooled until they have fooled themselves into behaving as though there was knowledge. Fooled us into believing them, following them into bubble land. Pop, pop, pop, our tiny toys, our tiny Ray Guns, popping all around us.Quick, someone count the bubbles, analyze the pops. Perhaps they are quadlinear. Perhaps ghastly transforms. Perhaps not.

Numbers don’t mean, they rarely render. Numbers never count, they rarely matter. Numbers is an easy game, but don’t remember. Numbers don’t reason. Numbers aren’t science.