At best, science is better at challenging its own dogmas than perhaps other fields of human thought. But, it still has its dogmas. Look at how much resistance there was to the emergence of Chaos as a field of study ... or how much in fighting there is between the different factions of string theory, or how being of a particular faction can affect your funding at some institutions.
Scientists wrap their insecurities and egos up in their conclusions and assumptions. And that becomes their dogma. It infects their experimental biases, and what they pass on to students, junior colleagues, etc. And they are VERY reluctant to entertain challenges to those things, even in the face of experimental proof. So much so that outsiders can easily mistake it for being comparable to a religion.
With enough experiments, and validations, the ice thaws ... but that doesn't change that the ice is there ... and that that the ice looks, smells, and tastes like dogma.
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Scientists wrap their insecurities and egos up in their conclusions and assumptions. And that becomes their dogma. It infects their experimental biases, and what they pass on to students, junior colleagues, etc. And they are VERY reluctant to entertain challenges to those things, even in the face of experimental proof. So much so that outsiders can easily mistake it for being comparable to a religion.
With enough experiments, and validations, the ice thaws ... but that doesn't change that the ice is there ... and that that the ice looks, smells, and tastes like dogma.