Do you recall the film 'Sleeper' where Woody Allen wakes from a coma of many decades to find that in the new reality - cream cakes are a scientifically proven health food?
'Operational' science I can believe unquestioningly - but the 'theoretical' end has truly granted us some mega rubbish over the years. (The media of course, do not help much when they latch onto every casual utterance and multiply the problem.)