“Trust science more, when it’s been tested by multiple groups, it’s been fruitfully built on, etc.”
I think it is fair not to overly trust any single paper.
Also worth considering the different qualities of evidence in different papers.
Mathematics has the highest form of evidence, being easier for readers to vet and reproduce themselves.
Human behavior the lowest given how impossible it is to isolate all conditions in a human head, and the lack of any reliable overall models of a human mind.
The point is to not treat it like a religion. Scientific conclusions are not blessed by god as divine and absolute truth. As much as we wish the world was black and white, it's much more shades of gray, and we should each do our part to make sure that religious zealots do not use "the science" as a political cudgel.
