Most people treat science as an infallible religion. I've had people argue with me here, on HN [1] that we should not question the scientists but should accept

Most people treat science as an infallible religion. I've had people argue with me here, on HN [1] that we should not question the scientists but should accept everything they say unconditionally. [2] [1] I am pointing this out because HN readers are presumably more intelligent than "most people" on average. [2] You can find a lot of comments like that in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9629797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9629797