Almost everything in a modern home comes from science. Plastics, paint, light but strong metal alloys, and everything electrical or electronic. Even the structural integrity is based upon science, and where builders take shortcuts buildings fall down - as can happen in countries like India and China. Of course, we also have science to thank for our floors being level and our walls being flat.
We have to be somewhat careful about science, because there will always be scientists seeking shortcuts and self-aggrandisement ahead of real evidence. Ex-Doctor Wakefield comes to mind, as do the people who showed off cold fusion in the early 1980s. The fact that we know these were frauds, though, is also due to science - whose entire modus operandum can be summarised as testing a theory to breaking point.
In the Wakefield case, even though his results could not be replicated and were later shown to have been falsified he is still peddling his anti-vaccine mania - presumably because nobody respectable would ever employ the guy. His efforts have resulted in hundreds of thousand suffering as diseases that should be almost wiped out by now are returning and showing people how bad they actually were!
At some point we need to trust science and scientists, because without them we would still be bleeding sick people to cure their humours. We should not blindly trust them any more than we would blindly trust a total stranger in our homes, and we should definitely not trust new scientific research as reported by mainstream media. We have cured cancer 100 times over according to media reports, which take the specific and make headlines to be read of generalities. Trust science not on the bleeding edge, but as it matures and as more researchers support the evidence of the original research.
