Exposure of faked dishonesty study makes me proud to be a behavioural scientist

Exposure of faked dishonesty study makes me proud to be a behavioural scientist (theconversation.com)

This piece speaks to a widespread misconception of science. It seems from the media coverage and the tenor of the comments in response to this article that a lot of people, even those who are scientifically trained, have a mental model of science as "things we know to be true". Of course, that is not what science is. Science is the systematic process of chipping away at ignorance.