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This question isn't even wrong. It needs a serious dose of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Science goes through huge upturns and there a

This question isn't even wrong. It needs a serious dose of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Science goes through huge upturns and there are intense debates, followed by periods of slow and steady progress, then another upheaval. This is normal and good. We stand on the shoulders of giants, while looking down at all of the wacky things they also believed (Newton believed in alchemy, astrology was all the rage for way too long, all the greats had some messed up beliefs about race). The whole point of science is that you keep doing science and you keep updating your beliefs based on the results of the method, not that you believe eternally in the findings that come out of a single article in a scientific journal.

1_player 5y ago
The idea that science is always right, dogmatic and scientists are a uniform group that stands apart from the laymen is the reason there is so much distrust in scientists and "experts" and there's conspiracy everywhere. "What they don't want you to know." or using the time a theory was proven wrong as proof that "science" is untrustworthy. While reality like you say it's much simpler. Science is not about absolute truth that requires blind faith, it is about proving a theory or disproving an established one, with a simple logic process established since the Middle Ages. What we know today is just a pile of theories ready to be disproven and replaced by something better like we did with blood letting, ether filling up outer space and geocentric astronomy. It's incredibly sad the majority of the people hasn't learned this fact either in life or even in middle school.