True, but there's no shortage of liars, scammers, etc. For instance, last year I had a lawyer friend telling me "science has proven there is life after death",

True, but there's no shortage of liars, scammers, etc. For instance, last year I had a lawyer friend telling me "science has proven there is life after death", and in the end it was a shitty paper with no logic whatsoever (the method was not even on the horizon), but funded by some rich university in the USA. Truth is the scientific method is a quite complex subject to understand and 6 months in uni is just not enough (in quality, not necessarily quantity). Problem is it's one of the main pillars of science, so doesn't surprise me the recent up-rise in anti-science "ideas". Analog to that, the way I see it, there's also a fundamental and severe problem with journalism that needs to be addressed, and can be seen clearly through the up-rise of fake news in last years.