There is a lot of thought diversity, it is easier than ever to find crackpot theories.
The difference is that as science advances, it is becoming harder and harder to simply understand what's going on.
Research on the beginning of the universe involve taking into account huge amount of observation data. Come up with a theory and you are going to get questions like "how do you take into account this spectrum density of that oddball galaxy no one but specialists heard about?". And if you don't come up with a satisfactory answer, then your theory is simply wrong, especially if the official theory explains this.
Global warming? People on TV make is sound easy, far from it. We suspected it long ago but definite evidence is relatively recent. It involves complex statistical models and again, because it is real science, tons of observation. How to tackle it is even harder because you add a political/economic dimension to it. Scientists can say "if we do that, this will happen", and they are not even sure, but if the "solution" involves, say, killing half of the human population, this is clearly unacceptable (and you are going to piss off the Avengers).
Covid19 research is actually a bit looser than usual because of the emergency, but again, hard stuff. But it is interesting to see that scientists tried whacky stuff, and these mostly failed.
The difference is that as science advances, it is becoming harder and harder to simply understand what's going on.
Research on the beginning of the universe involve taking into account huge amount of observation data. Come up with a theory and you are going to get questions like "how do you take into account this spectrum density of that oddball galaxy no one but specialists heard about?". And if you don't come up with a satisfactory answer, then your theory is simply wrong, especially if the official theory explains this.
Global warming? People on TV make is sound easy, far from it. We suspected it long ago but definite evidence is relatively recent. It involves complex statistical models and again, because it is real science, tons of observation. How to tackle it is even harder because you add a political/economic dimension to it. Scientists can say "if we do that, this will happen", and they are not even sure, but if the "solution" involves, say, killing half of the human population, this is clearly unacceptable (and you are going to piss off the Avengers).
Covid19 research is actually a bit looser than usual because of the emergency, but again, hard stuff. But it is interesting to see that scientists tried whacky stuff, and these mostly failed.