[AndrewDucker]

When people are proven wrong, does the conversation move forward, or do large swathes of people grip onto their beliefs anyway?

[presscast]

That has nothing to do with whether or not something is a science.

[TheOtherHobbes]

It is when the people who don't move on are the people doing the "science."

[presscast]

No, even then it has nothing to do with whether or not the subject of debate is scientific.

Bad deontology on the part of an individual doesn't discredit the field as a whole.