"I believe in science" is the cheapest intellectual dross on the market. Do you? Science is an ongoing institutional bloodbath; every "breakthrough" is a persistent or even cantankerous David finally scoring one on Goliath, often only posthumously. It's metal AF.
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Accounting is a much more intrinsically authority-mediated field; you follow standards to be a good accountant not because they're necessarily better, but because your output is "graded" by other humans. Only rarely do you get to do interesting stuff w/ novel inputs, e.g. crypto.
Science is very often more authority-mediated than most people think, but because its higher aims are not supposed to be this generates significant conflict. (Thus, my tweet.)
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You're talking about someone pointing to the higher aims despite the authority between? I will think about that. Tangential point that I can't ignore is that nobody ever talks about what the aims of science actually are. Just seems to be "more research, more better".
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The highest aim of science is the pursuit of "better" explanations (Beginning of Infinity is a good book for this). But better explanations in most cases diminish the legacy of their predecessors, and humans with a reputational stake react to this in many of the ways you'd expect
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