This is a very interesting piece on the philosophy of science and popular understandings of science:

How our botched understanding of ‘science’ ruins everything

http://theweek.com/article/index/268360/how-our-botched-understanding-of-science-ruins-everything

As an exercise to the reader, explain what is wrong with his complaint that what most people think of science is actually the opposite of science.

Some helpful ideas for this might be found here (Noah Opinion) and here (Crooked Timber, where I first found the links).

Seems like a topic we should be discussing in 205.  I think it’s the right level of ‘meta’ for a class on experimental design.