Scientific institutions are nevertheless different from religious institutions, in as much as they reward self-skepticism. Conspiracy theorists tend to be extremely skeptical regarding the existing consensus, but when it comes to their own beliefs, they lose all their skepticism and fall prey to confirmation bias. The trademark of science is not merely skepticism but self-skepticism, and at the heart of every scientific institution we find a strong self-correcting mechanism.
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Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem