Shut up science!!

So does it make sleep better?

It's true in that almost every food item is made "with science" (university-educated food technicians, biochemists, engineers etc.) these days, but you hardly need science to make common drugs like alcohol, caffeine or nicotine. Coffee and tobacco are just plants, and fruit will spontaneously start fermenting all on their own.

That's a good way to start my work day then because I'm constantly moving from one fire to another.

I think they mean they are putting their faith into the scientists performing the science

It's not just the scientists, it's the whole process. You trust that the journals are selecting articles based on their scientific merit. You trust that the journalists reporting on the stories are doing their best to accurately summarize the scientific articles, and that if they get it wrong they'll issue a correction. You trust that when science makes it into textbooks that those textbooks are accurately summarizing and maybe simplifying the science in a fair way. You trust that teachers or professors who are explaining the science to their students are doing it faithfully and accurately.

The Alpha Wolf theory shows how that sort of thing breaks down. There was a scientific study, and at the time there was no reason to suspect it wasn't legitimate. The scientist who did the study was accurately describing what he saw. The journal that published it had no reason to doubt it was good science. The peer reviewers did their job well. It just turned out that he was studying captive wolves, and that wolves in the wild didn't behave the same way. Unfortunately, "wolves live in family units where the parents are in charge" isn't as interesting a story, so while scientists have been trying to correct the record for a while, there are still people who have been taught by "science" or at least "the modern media and educational system with science at its base" that think that there are "alpha wolves" who take charge of a pack based on being strong and aggressive.

they are putting their faith into the scientists performing the science.

This anti-science ideology is usually called scientism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism

When people say they “believe” in science, I think they mean they are putting their faith into the scientists performing the science. That whatever conclusion they come to after an experiment or study is the correct conclusion.

That's literally what they mean, where "scientists" may as easily mean real scientists as charlatans.

It's still completely antagonistic to how science is practiced (if scientists behaved like that, they would never learn anything), and something closer to religion than science.

No you don't have to believe whatever you hear. You can be critical instead. You can also accept the results of science up to the boundaries of the results presented. Etc. There's absolutely no need for faith.

yes I must believe what the collective scientific community asserts... It should also be noted that there are people out there that treat science as a religion

Did you do your homework? No TV until you've done your homework.

Not OP but I was diagnosed by being sent to a sleep specialist. I complained of fatigue to my PCP so they checked me for sleep apnea and during the initial meeting I described my schedule and what is typical for me. At the end of the questioning I said "yeah, I've suspected I have a sleep disorder or something" and she said "you definitely have delayed sleep phase disorder" and BOOM it was in my chart.

Easiest diagnosis ever. It helps if you keep a sleep log for a little bit. I can't guarantee the ease of your diagnosis but mine was just being honest instead of lying and pretending to have a normal day walker schedule.

We should also thank Network Time Protocol. And if wireless carriers are using something else, perhaps that too.