Some heretics were/are complete loons. But there’s an insanity in the religious devotion to “Science” in popular culture driving the word to take on a synonymit

Some heretics were/are complete loons. But there’s an insanity in the religious devotion to “Science” in popular culture driving the word to take on a synonymity to “orthodoxy” or “establishment”. “Trust the orthodoxy” wouldn’t have nearly the same ring to it, but that’s what I think I most often hear from people wearing cheesy Bill Nye and NDT t-shirts. Calling someone “anti-science” then also sounding like “anti-establishment”. Sure they may be, but insofar as the scientific method is concerned, we need antithesis ideas, loon hypotheses, and room for those to be tested and discussed.