The sciences are not as cut and dry, black and white, rigorously objective as our friend TB likes to imagine. There are competing schools, academic fashions, debates, often conflicting and competing ways of interpreting data, and bitter disputes between equally qualified experts. In the end, the truth is always determined by consensus (AKA peer review). As we are all aware, mistakes are made and drastic revisions forced on us by embarrassing new facts. And of course, we never have all the data we need.
Even pure mathematics, the most objective of all sciences, still is under constant revision and hosts debates and controversy.
When you are out on the frontier, there are no maps and sometimes we just grope around in the dark. Engineers and physicians can afford the luxury of certainty, scientists often don't know what they're doing.
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