Because the media says it’s settled.
Because they are looking for truth and they think that science gives it to them.
Science doesn’t look for “truth”. Science looks for verifiable and falsifiable empirical results. Truth is left for the mystics and the priests. — Captain Compassion
**Because the media says it’s settled.***
What was “settled” 100 years ago was thrown out fifty years ago and replaced with a new “settled science”.
What was settled fifty years ago is now “Outdated” and a new “settled science” has replaced it, and you MUST believe it!
Problem is, many of the oldsters never got the word their “settled science” was no longer valid. Same for the not-so-old of fifty years ago.
Wonder what new thing will they come up with in the next twenty five years that will be absolute in the minds of science, till replaced again.