Taking a step back. The rate at which science has moved forward ever since there has been science has increased far, far more than the average human life span.

Taking a step back. The rate at which science has moved forward ever since there has been science has increased far, far more than the average human life span. Say, a few hundred years ago, it took science an average of X years to move forward enough to know that it was wrong about something. X was on the order of many human lifetimes. Today, science is moving so much more quickly. It 'finds out' it's wrong, over and over again, about a given topic, during a human's life span. Add to that the increased number of humans who are science literate. Add to that the total amount of 'bandwidth' between 'science' and people. Here is yet another area where technology has left biologies ability to cope in the dust. In this case, there are some possible solutions, mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Understanding what science actually means has never been more important. Here are my basic assumptions. Everything I believe is going to be proven wrong, multiple times, over the course of the next decades. All we can do is go forward, making sure what we do base our decisions on, every day, is the on our best and most honest efforts, for this moment in time. Note, I don't really think everything I believe will be proven wrong, in all likelihood. It's just a starting point. I understand my comments are skipping over a whole lot of important, relevant and fundamentally broken things, many of which can and need to be fixed.