Morgan Freeman is credited for saying, “all that it takes to make men stop thinking are the words – “scientist have discovered.”
While Freeman is correct, that day is long past. Now scientist can make great swelling statements about almost anything that is accepted without question. Having long since left behind the true definition of science they have entered a kind of authoritarianism that no one would dare doubt.
They no longer need to discover anything; they can make declarations without research, substance, and in some cases with no empirical means to prove anything.