For decades, attending science lectures in an open New York City, I would tell people that like a gambling addict who loses a lifetime of achievement on a roll of the dice, science was sacrificing centuries of prestige on the alter of global warmism. Everything we have been told about the Wuhan virus, starting with it as a “natural” occurrence, has been a leftist political lie. Scientists have functioned as stooges for the Marxist party.
Science is not a “field”, it is whatever uses the scientific method.
Scientific theories make testable predictions, hypothesis, that are open to disproof and tested through controlled observations. The benefits of science are incontrovertible, it is what keeps humanity from living and dying in mud huts.