Yes, you're right, popular discourse is better wording. Or perhaps I could put scare-quotes around "scientific" discourse. I see scientific thinking as more in

Yes, you're right, popular discourse is better wording. Or perhaps I could put scare-quotes around "scientific" discourse. I see scientific thinking as more in line with skepticism and general disagreeableness. (Is that really true? Where's the data? What was your methodology? How did you come to that conclusion?)