First off, about a year ago I was reading Gary Taubes "Bad Science: The short life and weird times of cold fusion". I love reading criticsm of Science and Medicine because they remind me that everything needs to be put in a little perpective. Rome wasn't conquered in a day, it was erroding already over centuries and starved for two years before it fell. In the same way, Science and our common belief system in popular science is a watered down dated version of reality.