Then you follow Rene Descartes and his 'Method'. Of course you can find childish mentality amongst otherwise well respected scientists. My problem with science is that our system (Europe) pours PhD's in thousands and the quality suffers. It is all about sucking money from EU and politics rather then research. The science is created per order. For me this system lacks credibility and becomes untrustworthy. How can I take seriously research on Global Warming when I know that it was created for money. Ridiculous.....and easy to become Anti-intellectual as you say..