> The point is that science can still become dogma when people treat it as the only source of truth, or when institutions use it to shut down doubt, ethics, or

> The point is that science can still become dogma when people treat it as the only source of truth, or when institutions use it to shut down doubt, ethics, or wider questions. Except that behaving that way is not science or scientific. Just because people blame their behavior on "science" doesn't mean that they're being scientific. > take for example the peer review process. The peer review process is also not, in and of itself, science. It's bureaucracy. Science is simply a method of inquiry. Nothing more and nothing less.