I wound up with too much time to think this’s week. I came up with a categorization of science, four classes of scientific Truth.

Class 1 I call science fiction. Basically speculation without actual data. Thinking about what faster than light travel might mean.
Class 2, wild guessing. What you do when you have @ mass of data and no idea what it means. At its best hypothesis forming might be its name.
Class 3, lies to children. Generally these are super ceded models used for instruction purposes. Think of teaching simple counting as if it were math. Or the “lie” we teach early college students as if Newtonian mechanics were true. Santa Clause and the tooth fairy might also fit here.
Class 4, current theory. Which we all know will probably be replaced someday but which is the best available explanation of all relevant data.

The other side of the coin are lies. Such as lies, damned lies and statistics.
My favorite type of lie is My dog did it, as in creationism “science”. Sometimes stated as m6 dogma did it. These tend to be “explanations” devoid of any useful startin* points fir study

Then we have “the gospel truth” which appears to be content with no actual evidences or data and generally easily shown evidence of it’s falsity. Often presented to justify hatred, misogyny, bigotry, racism, etc. our president’s pronouncements seem to fit this description and, therefore, are immediately accepted by those trained to always believe similar comments

Anyone have any thoughts on these categories?