Is it a bad idea to broadly tell people to just "trust the science"? I think so. The reason stems from my thinking that all of the following are important and true (and too often overlooked) regarding science: 1) A lot of science is real AND valuable to society. 2) A lot of "science" is actually fake - see, for instance, a decent percentage of papers in psychology 15 years ago. 3) "Science" (as an approach to knowledge discovery) is one of humanity's greatest inventions - but in pra...