Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Science is but an image of the truth.
Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.
As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'
Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.