blame it on science.

Yeah, that's it. Science. "'We are all being guided by science,' said Lt. Dan Nichols of the Capitol police. 'The bottom line on this is science takes time.'" This reminds me of the main debate in my life and career: marketing v. engineering. In Japan I learned that every delay in the project I worked on was spun to make engineers look like bumbling idiots. Luckily, I got a chance to defend the engineers to the customer -- that is rare. The finger-pointing goes global here.