Your comment seems to start off by agreeing with the parent but then diverges when you say:
> Science is the scientists.
> Science has hierarchies...
No, scientists have human flaws which lead to biases, hierarchies, etc. Science, as a method for discovering the truth about our world, works very well in the big scheme of things and the reverence for it is absolutely well deserved.
Whether it's true or not that older scientists sometimes have to die off before new scientists following more fruitful paths can have proper attention is a human concern; the fact is that the scientific method is ultimately very successful and the parent is quite correct in observing that the only issue here is conflating science and scientists with unfair expectations.
> Science is the scientists.
> Science has hierarchies...
No, scientists have human flaws which lead to biases, hierarchies, etc. Science, as a method for discovering the truth about our world, works very well in the big scheme of things and the reverence for it is absolutely well deserved.
Whether it's true or not that older scientists sometimes have to die off before new scientists following more fruitful paths can have proper attention is a human concern; the fact is that the scientific method is ultimately very successful and the parent is quite correct in observing that the only issue here is conflating science and scientists with unfair expectations.