This is a textbook strawman. Did you understand the passage quoted? John Stuart Mill clearly admits of a hierarchy of knowledge, ranging from the absolute truth

This is a textbook strawman. Did you understand the passage quoted? John Stuart Mill clearly admits of a hierarchy of knowledge, ranging from the absolute truth of mathematics to progressively less "objective" fields (or perhaps, merely "a posteriori" truths), e.g. morals, religion, politics. Here is another excerpt from the paragraph: But when we turn to subjects infinitely more complicated, to morals, religion, politics, social relations, and the business of life, three-fourths of the arguments for every disputed opinion consist in dispelling the appearances which favour some opinion different from it. The greatest orator, save one, of antiquity, has left it on record that he always studied his adversary's case with as great, if not with still greater, intensity than even his own. https://xkcd.com/435/ https://xkcd.com/435/ P.S. Can you demonstrate how the scientific method was applied when you reached the conclusion that this supposed "real pipeline" exists?