The rise and fall of scientific authority, and how to bring it back
The way in which public considers science today is much more analogous to the way the public considered religion during the time of Galileo. Think of the way people are castigated for not believing in scientific "truths". I see signs in peoples yard saying that "in this house, we believe science is real". As someone who has studied biochemistry for years, this kind of reverence for science is truly troubling. The one thing you learn in high level science is that nobody really knows what they're talking about, paradigms shift, and further study is required. Blind devotion and rejection of different viewpoints is dangerous regardless of which cause is being dogmatically held.This article is ironically akin to the 'The Preaching of St Paul', except that instead of burning Galileo's work, the author is trying to burn religious texts and dissenting viewpoints to their "settled science".