'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse.'

[patrice]

2. Other cohorts just don't understand how self-critique is the nature of science. I'm afraid the

average perception of how one thinks is really much more like a "bandwagon". People may assume that you acquire an "idea" of one type or another and then the task is to find others who agree, the more the better, because the numbers alone mean that you are right about whatever.

Science is so much the opposite of all of that and people don't understand that, so when they hear or read science they think it works the same way their own thinking does and it most assuredly does not.