Don't fully agree.

It's impossible for one person to know everything, and knowledge is passed on by people across all different fields of study and experience for future generations.

It's fine to believe the scientific findings in any given field. It's also fine -- and integral -- to challenge those findings if they don't add up.

The problem was never the direct belief in "the science". The problem is how we've been manipulated into attacking each other for differing beliefs.

The problem is also that those scientific findings are obfuscated or fraudulently recorded as a positive for a given agenda, and the incestuous "peer review scientific community" is given copious benefits for staying in their lane and agreeing with the findings, while those who challenge it have their funding revoked, their licenses revoked, and their right to privacy / personal liberties revoked.

Thinking critically is about using the information you have to make a conclusion.

The information is fraudulent, the media, world governments and "experts" suppress -- through one method or another -- anything that goes against their intended narrative.

In these scenarios, thinking critically can still lead you to the opposite conclusion from what many of us believe. That is fine. But thinking critically means that there is an open invitation to challenge you with further or alternative information, and then using that information to either revise your beliefs or maintain your beliefs.

Instead, we've seen people be pushed to ignore all other information that challenges their beliefs, so they cannot move past their manipulated biases, because we have a few generations alive today that were taught that they can't be wrong, and a challenge to their beliefs is a personal insult to their intelligence when it doesn't have to be. We have seen the cultivation of authoritarian worship, with too many kissing the feet and hanging on the words of those who lord over them.

It's not just about critical thought. Critical thought does not always lead to the right conclusions.

It's much deeper than that.