They are blinded by assuming good faith and competence. Most scientists consider most of their colleagues more or less incompetent, and even where they accept

They are blinded by assuming good faith and competence. Most scientists consider most of their colleagues more or less incompetent, and even where they accept experimental results, often reject the experimenter's interpretation of the result, often correctly. Scientists advise us to ignore the abstract, ignore the interpretation, ignore the conclusion, and trust only the data, at most. But we mostly don't get to do that for fields not our own. High prestige is detrimental in that it short-circuits this skepticism. This happens not only in Alzheimer Syndrome work. It put psychology research in the grip of behaviorism, statistics in the grip of non-causality, political science in the grip of dialectics.