Probably the biggest assumption we make in science is confusing the majority for truth. We falsely create an objective realty and grant it a superhuman authority purely from the math of consensus. Objectivity is ratified by our peers and if you have no peers your reality is bludgeoned by strangers until it conforms. This kind of Science will always be gang warfare. This is why the elite of Stanford and Harvard were recently busted for fraud. Everyone knows the truth but until more of us agree the truth is simply conspiracy. This is how powerful we are at believing.