The point of science isn&#x27;t so much to product truth but to determine which truth we actually care about.   So instead &quot;science&quot; is really a community of scientists, and in order for this to exist you have to have all the gatekeepers, in-groups and out-group, canonization, etc.    Bourbaki wasn&#x27;t just a group of random anonymous internet users, it was an inner circle of mathematicians who considered themselves at the center of the discipline, which is completely opposite.