The net is a metaphor for all the kinds of methods that we use. The person who becomes obsessed with his net and defining the science by what that net can tatch has become fetishistic about the net. And so in the book i make a point of criticising what i call methodological fetishism. Many scientists do become feticistic about their methods. They think, you know, this is the only good method, or this is the best method - they are convinced other methods are not meaningful. So if an r c t won't work to answer a certain kind of question, is it like the fish and you say, all those things aren't part of my science? Or do