Science is the rejection of argument from authority, which I think is a better way of saying it because it also includes political and religious authority. Tha

Science is the rejection of argument from authority, which I think is a better way of saying it because it also includes political and religious authority. That being said there's a nuance here: if I am not well versed in an area of science, I am probably going to defer to people who are... not because they have some special claim to truth, but because unless I have some evidence that they're deceptive or incompetent they are probably more likely to be right in their given field of expertise. This is no different from, say, having a certified heart surgeon do your heart surgery instead of your buddy who's a vet but has never done an operation on a human being.