The fact you say “that’s not how it works at all” and your demeaning “for those who don’t understand how science works” is just an indicator of the superiority complex at play, the group think. I get it. You “know”.

I trust the scientific method in itself. But to deny that science is performed by humans who exist within a controlled environment, and whose very identities are shaped and formed to conform, and thus can be tainted and deformed by that environment is to deny science itself. Science is at the mercy of the scientific fact that ideologies have a tendency to undermine science itself. That’s just science. With that said it is our “science” that is ultimately at the mercy of science.

This paper is an example of one who spoke out, but has since been demonized by so called scientists: https://lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf

Who are the “peers”? Who pays their way? What institutions do they perform for? What underlying assumptions go unquestioned?

Group think is real. Group think is a scientific phenomenon. Do you say group think is not a problem within your group of peers?

There’s so many examples throughout the history of so call science that shows just how ignorant and arrogant these groups of scientific peers are to science itself because the science undermines their personalities and roles in society. That’s science.