How do we feel about people saying they "believe" in science?
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Can we add, "Belief is actually the totally correct representation of their relationship with scientific expertise"? Because for most people, it's 100% the right word (they have faith in the edifice of the scientific community and what they have been told they say is correct).
I think any appeal to "Science" in conflates these — it is not one single thing (not a single method, not a single community, not a single philosophy, not a single collection of statements, etc.). Historians of science tend to see it as a very fluid category of human activity.
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(Which is just to say, the issue I think one ought to take is not with the term "belief" — which we use for all sorts of non-religious, empirical matters — but with the assumption that "science" means something singular and persistent.)
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