This kind of shit is what made me switch to Linux. I just didn’t feel like I owned my computer anymore.

Absolutely not, science has a long history of ignoring and laughing at many new theories. Many of them were later found out to be true, sure, but it’s not like religion doesn’t change, reinterpret itself etc. along with the changing times.

All the while nowadays pendulum has swinged to the other side, and most of published papers are never peer-reviewed, as “science” working under a capitalist system must abide by its rules, and so quantity and shock value is more important than quality.

So while in theory “being wrong” sounds like something that would be useful for science in practice, no, it always was about being (or at least seeming) right.