What We Mean When We Say “Trust the Science”

At left are the words of the late British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson.

Many of us harbor a misconception about science.  We hear people say, “Trust the science,” as if that means trust the current set of results that scientists have concluded on a certain subject.

It would be far more helpful if we were to say, “Trust the scientific method and those trained in its use to produce the best answers available to humankind.”