This one reddit post shows everything thats wrong with the people that "follow the science" in a nutshell
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🧠 These people are stupid!
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"Try until you do." This is so common, and it's a very human thing. Scientists are no different from the rest of us when they try to force the facts support what they want to believe, rather than letting the facts prove or disprove it. Education is a two-edged sword. A brilliantly educated person can brilliantly deny what he or she doesn't want to believe.
Some are outright liars, of course. Some are giving in to pressure or perks. Others simply want to make a name for themselves at any cost. It's a modern crisis of morality, but it is this underlying human tendency to force the confirmation of their beliefs that leaves them open to manipulation from gatekeepers with an agenda. Students used to be taught to recognize this tendency so they could avoid it and have a better chance at discovering the truth, but not anymore. Now they are taught not to question established theory, and they are encouraged to disregard inconvenient evidence that it might be wrong.
It has happened before in science. The situation only changes when contradictory facts from better observation accumulate to the point that the cost of clinging to established theory outweighs the cost of abandoning our modifying it. No one like to be labeled a fool for believing something that is obviously wrong.
While this is true, I (and most other people probably) learned that this is NOT science when I was in grade school.
Nor I, but for me that was when dinosaurs roamed the earth and we had to get up and go over to the TV to change the channel. I will concede that the proper form of scientific method might still be taught in some schools, but it should be difficult to keep to it when honest inquiry is limited by theories that are presented as fact. Everything is framed by the theories establishment scientific community regards as fact. That is justified when a theory is abundantly proven, like the theories regarding electromagnetism have been. It is not justified when a theory is not proven. The Big Bang is a relevant example. The theory gets in more trouble every year from better observation and better deductive science that increasingly challenges its basic tenets. They are trying to save the theory when they come up with ridiculous things like pre-existing magnetic fields that cannot exist by themselves apart from an electric field and dark matter that can never be seen, measured, or tested. It's the epicycles the ancient Greeks invented to account for the crazy motions of the planets all over again. They were invested in a theory, too, and they were trying to save it. My point is that this framing itself leads some scientists into the error of trying to prove what they have been taught is the truth.