[wissler]

When I point out the fact that science does not mean "just trust the experts, they are experts", and the scientific method does not mean "peer review by the anointed institutional authorities", the typical reaction is revealing.

The same people who bemoan a failing trust in our scientific institutions are themselves furthering it, by adopting starkly authoritarian anti-science attitudes. They compound the problem by rabidly attacking anyone for daring to question, which is behavior more fitting to a religious dogma than to a science.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio