I think you are overreaching with that. Science at its core is curious and open minded problem solving combined with an anti-authoritarian skepticism- you accep

I think you are overreaching with that. Science at its core is curious and open minded problem solving combined with an anti-authoritarian skepticism- you accept things once you can understand and confirm them for yourself. Ideally, it is also Bayesian- e.g. considering all of the evidence, even weak evidence like personal anecdotes, while correctly keeping track of how strong or weak each bit of evidence really is. You have the courage to trust what you understand deeply even if other powerful authorities disagree- and take the responsibility to make sure you do actually understand deeply (the conspiracy theory crowd is missing the second bit). As a practicing academic scientist, I feel like the vast majority of my colleagues with research focused academic careers also see it this way. Nearly everything called "science" in popular culture (including school science classes, pop science books, etc.) is actually a sort of dogmatic religion that idolizes science. One of the weirdest things for me, is coming on here and when I share the type of creative thinking that actually leads scientists to new hypotheses, I am insulted and accused of being an "idiot" or "anti-science" by mostly career programmers for whom science is a religion, and not a creative process. When they talk to a scientist, they see someone that doesn't align with their fixed dogmatic views, and label it as basically the opposite of what they are actually encountering- real science looks like "pseudoscience" to them. These people would even attack someone like Isaac Newton as an idiot for daring to discuss something new that seems "weird" and idolize, e.g. a medical doctor repeating some old official stance from an institution that has been thoroughly disproven by new research.