The glory and perils of Science

Perhaps the most glorifying achievement of modern mankind is Science, and particularly, the Scientific Method. In a nutshell, the scientific method prescribes how to develop an explanation about some part of reality, how to express it formally, and how to measure its reliability.
In other words, anyone can come up with an explanation for anything; yet if he can put it down formally so that anyone else can understand it (pretty much unambiguously), and anyone else can measure independently how much of a truth the explanation is, then he's formulated a scientific explanation.
If a proposition (a statement about something) is not formally expressed or cannot be independently contrasted in any way, it might be an explanation, but is not scientific.

(Formal) Science, and the scientific method, is probably the most wonderful and fruitful development of the past centuries; however....

Functionally speaking, science and its method is a tool, and all tools ought to be used wisely, yet often, they are not, simply because it is us, humans, who use it.

One of the perils of science is the common misconception, specially among the so-called layman (i.e. us, normal people), that science is bullet-proof and that a scientific statement is guaranteed to be true. It is quite common to heard the expression: "It has been scientifically tested that..." as a way to say: "it is undoubtedly true that..."; yet however common, is wrong.
Science is about producing statements about reality with a known certainty, but known certainty and complete (100%) certainty are quite different things.
Scientific knowledge, in the minds of scientists, is a structured collection of ideas each with a well establish degree of truth; yet in the collective-mind of society, is a corpus of unquestionable laws about everything.
Ironically, most people, including many scientists, pose a dogmatic attitude towards scientific knowledge. The power of science comes from its dynamism, a feature rooted in the fundamental fact that science is always inconclusive. If scientific knowledge were to be considered final word, it would be nothing but dogma.