Comic #6145: family

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Panel 1: Child: "Mom, I'm doing science!" Mom: "No, you're fucking not."

Panel 2: Narration: "Thanks to children's science shows, you believe 'doing science' is synonymous with any activity that involves sense perception."

Panel 3: Mom: "If you’re 'doing science,' every human who ever existed 'did science.' In fact, every living creature in the last 3.5 billion years has been 'doing science.'"

Panel 4: Mom: "If you're not repeating an experiment in a controlled setting or collecting information in a systematic manner or coming up with an explanatory model to make sense of available data, YOU ARE NOT DOING SCIENCE. YOU ARE LOOKING AT SHIT!"

Panel 5: Mom: "But you’re a scientist and most of what you do is paperwork and yelling at the internet."

Panel 6: Mom: "And I bet you don’t see THAT on YouTube, do ya?!"