The scientific community communicates its findings to the rest of the world by publishing its work in scientific journals. This enables others to replicate and repeat other scientists' experiments to accept or reject the hypotheses and conclusions of others. However, individual scientists do not submit their work to the scientific community
before making sure they are right. How best can they ensure that their results are valid?
Scientists hire editors to review their lab reports to make sure that their explanations are clear and concise and to change anything that doesn't sound
good.
Scientists partner with mathematicians to check over all their data and charts and graphs to ensure that there are enough data, but if not, they can add
to the data.
Scientists repeat their experiments just a few times to show that they can get the same results more than once and to catch any mistakes in the
procedure.
The scientists repeat their experiments over and over many times to ensure that they have taken everything into consideration to communicate quality
results.

An employee of the state government always received his state paycheck on the last workday of the month. the employee was not a good money manager, and just barely managed to make it from paycheck to paycheck each month. on the second to the last workday of the month, the employee had $45 in his checking account, and, needing to buy a birthday gift for his sister, he wrote a check to a gift boutique for $100. he knew that he would be receiving his paycheck the next day, so he could deposit the paycheck before the check would be sent to the bank.however, unbeknownst to the employee, the state legislature was having a budget impasse. because the state constitution prohibited any deficit spending, state employees were not paid as usual. without a paycheck to deposit, the check written to the gift boutique was returned for insufficient funds. the merchant complained to the police, who arrested the employee and charged him under a statute that prohibited "issuing a check knowing that it is drawn against insufficient funds, with intent to defraud the payee of the check."what should be the outcome of the employee's prosecution? a not guilty, because the employee intended to deposit his paycheck the next day.b not guilty, because it was reasonable for the employee to expect that he would receive his paycheck as usual.c guilty, because the employee knew when he wrote the check that he did not have sufficient funds in his account to honor it.d guilty, because reliance on a future source of income does not vitiate the employee's violation of the statute when he wrote the check.