[simorley]

> The only time it really stops working is if people start treating it as doctrine, and demanding that you accept it on faith, and take any questions as evidence that you are an enemy of science. If anything destroys science, it is this line of reasoning.

Agreed with everything you wrote. We should be especially vigilant when politics/media gets involved in science. Science is just as corruptable, especially in the short term, as any other field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man

The more obvious example being the purging of "jewish science" from germany during ww2.