Exactly what part of the scientific process involves locking people up, stripping them of their jobs, splitting families apart? Admitting past errors without a

Exactly what part of the scientific process involves locking people up, stripping them of their jobs, splitting families apart? Admitting past errors without also acknowledging the current knowledge is just as fallible is nothing but empty words. It's also a very rose tinted interpretation of what has been happening. The messaging has always been "These are this week's truths. They are absolute truths, and we'll enforce these truths at gunpoint, for these truths are infallible, and The Science is settled."