Perhaps. But we're also impressed by methods just as much as results.

[Perfect. So that's how how it worked with her; just a matter of... negotiations. As always- and especially in unfamiliar territory- one had to know their audience. Not everyone had an appreciation for this sort of thing on scientific merit, after all.

Though she did have to hold her tongue to avoid boasting about how plenty of her colleagues had begun their careers as 'test subjects'.]

Or, to put it plainly... all of this-- [A broad gesture to the coordinated machinations of arachnid kitchenworkers.] --is a selling point.

[A pointed, conciliatory step back, further out of the way.]

Surely it does no harm to feed my fascination as well as my appetite.