Accepted science could be boiled down to consensus, but the fact of the matter is that it's a very incestuous community that doesn't accept criticism or alternative/conflicting findings and don't even spend the time to reproduce the results enough times to prove the methodology and conclusions as sound.
Science requires active investigation and challenging your own beliefs of the world as well as others'. If you believe you're always right, you haven't truly learned or understood the scientific method.
I would say these people haven't truly learned nor understand the scientific method, because they simply can't handle criticism, and they refuse to take an academic look at themselves and criticize themselves properly.
Accepted science could be boiled down to consensus, but the fact of the matter is that it's a very incestuous community that doesn't accept criticism or alternative/conflicting findings and don't even spend the time to reproduce the results enough times to prove the methodology and conclusions as sound.
Science requires active investigation and challenging your own beliefs of the world as well as others'. If you believe you're always right, you haven't truly learned or understood the scientific method.
I would say these people haven't truly learned nor understand the scientific method, because they simply can't handle criticism, and they refuse to take an academic look at themselves and criticize themselves properly.
This certainly sounds like what I wanted to say, thanks.