Separation of Science and State

[John 6IX Breezy]

We should distinguish between scientific experiments such as measuring and logging environmental data, and personal experiments like, "what happens if I do acid and coke at the same time?"  It's a broad term that takes different meanings in those contexts.

Experiment needs to be a broad term. Not only do the questions, methods, and tools differ between branches of science (physics to biology) they differ greatly within each field as well (cognitive neuroscience to molecular neuroscience). As long as a variable is being manipulated (taking coke and acid) and another variable is being affected (what happens to me) you have an experienced.