When scientific orthodoxy resembles religious dogma
That&#x27;s just human beings acting like human beings. Every orthodoxy behaves the same way up to a point because this is how primate power hierarchies behave.<p>The thing that makes science different isn&#x27;t that scientists are more rational than everyone else but that it&#x27;s possible to challenge a scientific finding with evidence. Even with evidence some people will still resist, but if you publish your experiment and your findings and it gets replicated you at least have a chance of changing enough minds to change overall opinion quickly.<p>Other kinds of dogmas such as religious or (most) political ideologies are untestable and therefore impossible to challenge in any way other than through force or sophistry (force of mental gymnastics?). Opinions in those spheres therefore change very, very slowly and usually more in response to unrelated events such as demographic shifts or wars than in response to anything relevant to the topic.