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CMV: Science is held up up as some pure bastion of unadulterated truth, when in reality, it’s often subjective and/or inconclusive.

Today, “science” seems to be just another religion with millions of people that put their blind faith in without question or test. And just like Christianity of old, proponents will scoff at and shun anyone who is skeptical of it in its currently established form. 

Now I’m not a flat-earther or anti-vaxer trying to gain a platform; obviously the scientific process has helped us understand truth in countless ways. But the entire history of science is about overturning established conclusions and consensuses, and I think anyone who unconditionally accepts and molds their world view to whatever today’s scientific consensus is is just as blind as a religious zealot who refuses to acknowledge scientific observations of the world. 

This sentiment is obviously different in its application to various schools of science: it’s simple to understand chemistry because we can easily observe the cause and effect, like a math problem. Things like behavioral science and climatology are different because patterns are much more spurious and subjective to personal bias and interpretation. 

As somebody who has participated in research and reporting at university, I know that studies are easy to manipulate (whether intentionally or not) based on the goals and biases of the researcher. There’s a reason why you can look at recent studies on any topic and find wide varieties of conclusions of the same question; because each study has a different goal or agenda...someone seeking to either confirm of deny a certain premise. Anyone else that has participated in scientific research should be able to confirm that factors of personal belief or bias can greatly affect one’s conclusion, even with a well-designed experiment. 

The fact is, science is always changing but too many people treat it like it’s a settled issue in all cases and worship it as the savior of humankind, when any scientist is aware of how little we truly understand about the world and new information is constantly coming forward. If we take science as it sits and hold it up as some supreme truth, we’ll be 1) stunting our future growth by stifling discourse and experimentation, and 2) doing humanity a moral disservice by beating society into conformity with information and conclusions that may well be incorrect and later proved wrong. 

To be concise, I don’t wish to debate about any particular scientific issue, but believe that science is best served by skepticism in general, and that society is unwisely trending towards treating established scientific principles as the God of the new age: an entity to be bowed down to, praised, and never questioned.
gpt
The fault in your logic is in the very title:

>Science is held up up as some pure bastion of unadulterated truth, when in reality, it’s often subjective and/or inconclusive.

No one who really understands science actually does this.  What science is is the best explanation of the current evidence that we have - that explanation could very well be wrong and we are open to it being wrong based on new evidence.  Science accept that while there may be objective "truth" out there, we can never claim to be certain of what that truth is because there always _could_ be new evidence that disproves our current theories.  A theory that can't explain something acknowledges this gap in understanding and always admits that it is an incomplete theory.  For example, our "macro" level physics is well understood but it doesn't mesh with what we know of quantum physics yet - physicists will be the first to tell you that while our theories work and seem right, we are clearly missing something critical and our theories are incomplete. 

The goal of science is to follow what we believe the best explanation we have is for things and act accordingly, but always be testing and re-verifying that that explanation is truly the best we can come up with.