[zentiggr]

I would say as a first point of enlightenment, medicine. Many afflictions have been eliminated or mitigated.

> But fundamentally I disgree with your opinion that the real world is muddled and confusing.

I was illuminating the difference between the world around us being its complicated, partially unexplored self, and the GP saying that science is muddled and confusing, which it is, but to a lesser degree than the world it is developing from.

> you will largely find “science” has mislead humanity at most steps along the way

Your use of quotes there is the tell... many have purported to "know" "scientific" facts when their beliefs were nothing but beliefs. And most/many have been cast aside as our level of knowledge has progressed. And that is the true progress of science - learning more about the world and changing from guesses about reality to knowledge about reality.

People will always have their agendas and limitations, but the process of learning and understanding always surpasses each individuals' limitations and gives us better understanding. Even if it is "one funeral at a time".