Nearly all of the strident appeals to Science in the media come from people with journalism degrees who wouldn't recognize scientific methodology if they tripped over it. These are, on the contrary, thinly-veiled appeals to authority (the left is particularly fond of authority) onto which they have conferred godhead. Damn the data, up the narrative!
This doesn't work in science. As Richard Feynman said,
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are who made the guess, or what his name is… If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.
Hence the most basic requirement of peer review: show me the raw, unfiltered, untweaked data and describe your statistical methodology. Or give up on "Science".
Nearly all of the strident appeals to Science in the media come from people with journalism degrees who wouldn't recognize scientific methodology if they tripped over it.
Love it!