As the saying goes, science advances one funeral at a time.
> Science doesn't lie but
Science is a process -- a process run by fallible humans. Fallible doesn't mean just that "they[we] can make mistakes" but also that "they[we] are corruptible".
Science doesn't lie, but scientists are another story. Science is something we must all be prepared to do, not merely trust.
Also, science requires healthy skepticism. We don't agree with Einstein because his theory is cool and all -- we mostly agree with Einstein because the data mostly agrees with Einstein. And even today we're a bit skeptical of General Relativity because of problems like the galaxy rotation problem. Even today we call GR a theory, and we will never call any scientific theory a fact, always only either a theory or a discredited theory.
> Science doesn't lie but
Science is a process -- a process run by fallible humans. Fallible doesn't mean just that "they[we] can make mistakes" but also that "they[we] are corruptible".
Science doesn't lie, but scientists are another story. Science is something we must all be prepared to do, not merely trust.
Also, science requires healthy skepticism. We don't agree with Einstein because his theory is cool and all -- we mostly agree with Einstein because the data mostly agrees with Einstein. And even today we're a bit skeptical of General Relativity because of problems like the galaxy rotation problem. Even today we call GR a theory, and we will never call any scientific theory a fact, always only either a theory or a discredited theory.