Such is real science. In REAL science, new ideas start as an hypothesis. Hypotheses are subject to the skepticisms of other REAL scientists who test their conditions. Ones that survive this testing can become theories. Such was the idea of Pythagoras. Further intense scrutiny and testing can allow some theories to become Laws. A single repeatable test can prove a thousand successes wrong. Few theories survive this scrutiny. Remember that Newton's Law of Gravity survived several centuries before it was proven inaccurate.
Yet now a few arrogant bureaucrats have determined that Catastrophic Global Warming is true science, and that Masks and Vaccines are true science. Their arrogance is eclipsed only by their ignorance.
Maybe it should be Pythagoras’s Law of right triangles.