>Trust in the scientific community (which is approaching crisis) gets eroded every time papers are overstated,
While I detest clickbait with the fury of a million Betelgeuses, I welcome increased skepticism towards science and especially the "scientific community".
Science is fundamentally built upon skepticism, you never implicitly trust anyone or anything. You verify theories and findings as humanly possible and only then trust what remains only as far as you can throw them (which could still be false, depending on our ability to verify).
Science implicitly trusted is no different from blind worship in religion. I have nothing against religion, but science isn't a religion.
"Trust the science." is by far one of the most damaging mindsets that have come about for science.
While I detest clickbait with the fury of a million Betelgeuses, I welcome increased skepticism towards science and especially the "scientific community".
Science is fundamentally built upon skepticism, you never implicitly trust anyone or anything. You verify theories and findings as humanly possible and only then trust what remains only as far as you can throw them (which could still be false, depending on our ability to verify).
Science implicitly trusted is no different from blind worship in religion. I have nothing against religion, but science isn't a religion.
"Trust the science." is by far one of the most damaging mindsets that have come about for science.