The scientific method is fantastic. And scientists can of course do great things, but at the end of the day they're just people who can be very wrong or misguid

The scientific method is fantastic. And scientists can of course do great things, but at the end of the day they're just people who can be very wrong or misguided about something. Personally speaking, if there's one profession that deserves a lot more credit for the positive things that exist in the world, it's the engineers who actually build stuff. An engineer can't bullshit you to the level that a bad scientist can: there's no faking or ambiguity about a bridge that can't stand upright or a building that collapses.