Science is always taken with salt! More seriously - science produces contingent knowledge. Even the results of the LHC are to be taken with some salt because a

Science is always taken with salt! More seriously - science produces contingent knowledge. Even the results of the LHC are to be taken with some salt because although the greatest and most honest minds of our generation work on them they likely won't ever be independently replicated. All scientific knowledge has some doubt attached to it - after all, it's not maths!