Pointing the business end of their microscope at themselves is quite a revelation.
It rarely happens.
There’s a tremendous amount of peer pressure and personal sacrifices involved for a scientist whose entire life is built on what his peers think of him.
Yes... so much modern science is actually a game played to the gallery, and it ends up being fanatically defended half baked philosophy because the gallery screams so loud. Global warmism is one of those things.
Scientists used to be humble before God. Michael Faraday is one of my favorites in that category. He knew that if there was an association found in nature, it probably had been put there for an elegant reason by God and wasn’t the result of some anonymous dice throw. One did not need to agree on how many angels could dance on the head of a pin to realize that God made the angels and arranged for the pin to be there.