Of course there's faith in science, the no-quotes kind. First, you have to believe in the scientific method. Second, you have to believe that the process as it's currently carried out in academia and elsewhere leads to valid, relatively unbiased results.
The first is more of a metaphysical question. But there are huge doubts about the second in every discipline, maybe except physics. There are publishing biases, observational studies everywhere, replication problems, sample biases (19 year old college students), even straight up fraud that goes uncorrected for years. And that's just the cases we know about.
The first is more of a metaphysical question. But there are huge doubts about the second in every discipline, maybe except physics. There are publishing biases, observational studies everywhere, replication problems, sample biases (19 year old college students), even straight up fraud that goes uncorrected for years. And that's just the cases we know about.