If this is the mentality everyone had we'd still be giving lobotomies.
Yes, "science" (rather, the vast army of people conducting science, and all of their own respective human inclinations, biases, and faults) has "gotten things wrong" more times than it's gotten them right.
That's how science intrinsically works. Meanwhile, sticking your head in the sand and doing nothing, solves nothing.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 was awarded for the discovery of the therapeutic value of lobotomies, which is the most controversial of all the scientific Nobel Prizes awarded (the Peace Prize and Literature Prizes routinely court controversy for rather obvious reasons).
Sure, the Peace and Literature Prizes routinely court controversy.
But the Prize in Medicine being given to the discovery of the therapeutic value of lobotomies can easily be more controversial than any Peace or Literature Prize, even if those categories are more often controversial than Medicine is.
Yes, "science" (rather, the vast army of people conducting science, and all of their own respective human inclinations, biases, and faults) has "gotten things wrong" more times than it's gotten them right.
That's how science intrinsically works. Meanwhile, sticking your head in the sand and doing nothing, solves nothing.