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"The Science is settled" and "I believe in Science" are both equally frightening sentences.
I completely agree. A lot of the time “I believe in science” is usually used in reference to comparing it to feelings or faith, and in those cases it makes sense to say you trust science over someone’s gut feeling or their “own research”. If you are someone who just blindly goes around proclaiming “I believe in science” then you need to go back to school and take a critical thinking course.
I've had people tell me things were impossible because they "Aren't in our list of known unknowns" or they violate some principle for vague reasons they don't understand... then a month later an article shows up saying "We proved that thing Sera said was totally possible"
Scientism is such cringe
Critical thinking courses would indeed be very great to have.
Mere factual knowledge transfer is not effective in forming mature and responsible minds if critical thinking is not a focus of education as well.
I have been wishing that Formal Logic was a K-12 class like English.
Sadly I find people who most proudly preach the wonders of Critical Thinking, are the ones least capable of it.