Over the years I've come to the conclusion that "science" is all about the customs designed to defeat the brain's imperfections. (It's pretty impressive that we

Over the years I've come to the conclusion that "science" is all about the customs designed to defeat the brain's imperfections. (It's pretty impressive that we can build such a reliable system on top of a such an unreliable system.) One important conclusion is that scientists are not more believable than other people. "You should believe me because I am a scientist" is not acceptable answer. That scientist is still a meat-bag, just like you. The entire field of science is built up so we can trust the results of science despite it being done by meat-bags, not because we have created high priests that are more believable.