To clarify: I am by no means "anti-science"—exactly the opposite! Obviously, science is an unspeakably valuable epistemological tool and process (and, as I see it, the inarguable best way to reach correct conclusions about the world). I'm no crackpot or conspiracy theorist who thinks vaccines don't work or the earth is flat or climate change isn't real.

All I'm saying is that, as I see it, society's idea of "science" often conflates it with scientists and/or institutions themselves (hence the "argument to authority" part of my comment above). This is, of course, the opposite of what science means, which is why it bothers me enough to have written these comments :-P