In a world of rewarded p-hacking, unrepeatable cancer research, of wild contentions being pulled from the loosest of correlations, you think faith in these things isn't a problem?

Keep in mind faith has a specific meaning as a belief in something you yourself can't prove. IE, you aren't repeating these experiments, thus you take it on faith they are correct - a critique of science originally put forth by Richard Feynman the Nobel Prize winning physicist.