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2) Scientists may be partly to blame for the perceived "linear
process" of science because that is how the reports are written and
presented to the scientific community and to the public. While the
process is indeed the looping process you describe, the report is
almost always linear:
* here is our project
* here are the papers that relate to the final hypothesis
* here is the experiment we performed and the results
* here is the analysis
* here is our conclusion
Reporting null results is important too, and is rarely done.