
I'm sure that's right BR- sometimes. However science is a word and therefore incapable of utterance.
Do you mean that no-one, ever, who professes to be a scientist has ever made such an assertion? Or that no "true scientists" have?
I have though read posts, articles, etc. expressing outrage when people profess views that are not "accepted science".
Science has its own mantras and I often feel the overtones of "burn the heretic" when people criticise aspects of it. Indeed as I said before, science is the new religion with its priests (scientists), saints (Nobel Prize winners), ceremonies (peer review) etc. All spoken of in hushed and reverential tones. And of course its sects, schisms and excommunications!
In my mind science is a word, it has good practitioners and charlatans (some notably exposed recently), it has done great things (advances in medicines) and terrible things (nuclear and chemical weapons).
Scientists are not above beyond being wrong, or beyond monumental conceit.
The parralels with "enforced religion" are uncanny.
I love poking fun at pompous priests and I also enjoy poking fun at pompous scientists
Not having a pop at any membes of this forum but I willingly confess to moments of schadenfreude when the pomposity of any "we know better" group is dented![]()
Me - I like my world based on a little logic, a little wonder and leavened with a pinch of certainty that no person or group has all the answers.
Red
Put like that Red, I have to agree.

Of course there are rogue "scientists" just like in any thing that involves human beings.
The "new religion" bit I have to take issue with though; science (proper science
