Reggie Shaw, who caused a 2006 crash that killed two scientists, confesses, "I don't remember what the message said.
Under questioning, the scientists confessed that they had been hired as a group to help the North Koreans build a modern missile fleet.
But the earliest moments are certainly hard to grasp, and scientists themselves confess that the further back you go, the more difficult the physics is to describe and comprehend.
"If scientists fully confess their uncertainty to the public, this appears to increase trust," said survey director Jon Krosnick, a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and professor of communication, of his findings.
Some diplomats also worry that if the inspectors were actually to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or to locate a scientist confessing to the development of such weapons, it may be harder rather than easier to justify a war against Iraq.
The "Top Chef" winner, who owns the Ink and Ink Sack restaurants in West Hollywood, shyly told the students he wasn't a scientist and confessed that he felt "nervous to be speaking before the future scientists in our field".
This entire approach, however, is letting out the dirty little secret that many scientists won't confess to that is, Science is Simple.
A naughty French scientist has confessed to slipping rude street slang into arcane scientific papers published in English in a dare with his colleagues.
Meanwhile, AQ Khan, the scientist who confessed to selling nuclear secrets in 2004, has been allowed to return to public life.
