Trust the science, we’ve been told. In fact, anyone who disagrees with what scientists tell us is a horrible person who isn’t considering, well, anything.
Yet science isn’t infallible. Tons of things scientists thought they knew turned out to be untrue. Part of what makes a good scientist is the ability to question those things everyone knows to be true and examine them to see if they truly are.
But there’s a difference between science and The Science, and those stark differences are coming to light more and more often now.
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