If there's something that's way overrated, it's the teaching of science. If you're going to be a biologist, what you believe about the creation of life might matter.
Teaching the scientific method as a way to problem solve would be helpful to people in careers where they find themselves with problems to solve or new things to learn often. Not so much for learning the results of experiments that don't have a lot of bearing on your job. Is it really important to a welder to know how the kinetics of the reaction that occurs when they cut steel with an oxy/acetylene torch? How important to your average person is it to know quantum mechanics?
I have a degree in chemistry.
I think that learning the scientific method is essential to being able to understand and do science.
Requiring adherence to the latest scientific consensus only stifles learning and the ability to think that makes the application of the scientific method a useful tool to use.