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 ::As I see it, the authority of science is success and it is maintained by an institution that decides in favor of self-preservation. But that institution is not just scientists. It is university and government and a public that funds for expected benefits. Belief in a subtle energy reality in which the influence of intentionality is as real as any mechanical process is not really unlike institutionalized science. In the end, it is funded for expected benefit and by people who are, for the most part, willing to examine what they are told by science and take what makes sense from both views. One dominates society and the other is beginning to flex some pretty impressive muscles.  

 ::""something believed for some specific reason that no amount of contrary evidence could ever change"" is called a religion and that has a very different dynamic. You might try to write this article that way, but it won't last long. Aint no disconfirmation for a person who blindly sits at the feet of institutionalized belief systems.   "