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Study A shows effect. Study B shows anti-effect. The scientific method would have both studies replicated to shed more light on the discrepancy. How often does that actually happen?

What usually happens is they get entrenched in their beliefs that *their* knowledge is correct, *their* method couldn't possibly be in error. What should be "science" turns into dogma.

At levels of quantum mechanics especially, certain observations can't be explained in standard terminology. Belief in this theory or that theory is all there is. Some scientists have even put forth that the entire universe is a hologram. Such a position, though developed using the scientific method, can only be a belief. Likewise, the anti-position can only be a belief. The farther you get into the philosophical underpinnings of how we know what we know, the more we find that what we think we know is really just a belief.