After reading this, only one word is coming to my mind...scientism. Word that describes religion which science become. Like you said, little or no new ideas are allowed in science community. Everything that is outside of accepted reality is dissmised by reflex action. That is not how scientist would behave, that is how people with stubborn beliefs behave.
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I agree, science has definitely become its own religion, and just like any other religion, some people learn the dogma of the religion and then hold it as absolutes. I look at it as "jumping ahead", not taking the time to think things through but accepting an idea as fact without thought and then beginning the process of education. In this way, people can become extremely educated in all the why's of current beliefs while having no real inkling that it is built on a critically flawed foundation because they've already moved past that stage of analysis. In the same way, religious beliefs are built on assumptions that, if we jump ahead and do not take the time to reflect on them, can be accepted as truths and given no thought as people learn all the intricacies of the belief systems viewed as absolutes. To me, there are absolutes and its just a matter of taking as slow and cautious of a step-by-step approach to determine what those absolutes are, using logic and unbiasedly as many sources of information as possible.
My research paper I mentioned above is called The Universal Principle of Natural Philosophy which is an ode to Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, whose work it stems from, but more importantly to me it is specifically an intentional attempt to point out that science has separated from philosophy when the two must be used in congruence with one another in order to make sense of things. Science is the study of nature without its philosophical consideration, just another indication of our tendency towards trying to force things, including understanding.