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Sure! Same’s true of governments. We have a thing called ‘democracy’ which ensures that governments listen to the people and perform only actions that are in service to them. Any policy of ‘government’ is therefore a product of what’s best for the populace they serve, and people suggesting other policies are just quacks.
Wait…what’s that you say… democracy is broken and doesn’t function like that because of the corrupt power exerted over it by those who own the means of production…
Well, there you go then. Unless you’ve got a very good reason why ‘Science’ is immune from those exact same forces we’ve no more reason to trust its output than we have the policies of government.