It's bad when leaders make choices based on unproven ideas because of the impact that can have on people. If I told all my friends that drinking hot sauce made

It's bad when leaders make choices based on unproven ideas because of the impact that can have on people. If I told all my friends that drinking hot sauce made me smarter, then yeah, drinking hot sauce has some value for me individually. If I told some scientists the same thing, they might think about it and analyze what the possible mechanism was, whether I actually became snarter, etc, but the idea of drinking hot sauce has absolutely no value to society until someone can prove it works. The value to science is in a possible research path, if it somewhat fits with what we know about reality. That's why I ask and search for proof. I don't want to be tricked into drinking hot sauce for no reason.