Part of the game is to toss out ideas and eliminate them until you have a solution, or have to hunt new ideas. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Given that, however, the freedom to contend otherwise is essential to the vindication or refutation of an idea. Without the ability to openly challenge and debate those ideas, demagoguery slips in, and science is not science, but takes on a cult religious aspect.
Demanding it be believed (or else) can only destroy innovation and progress, real progress on the frontiers of human knowledge.
Open discourse, and especially reasoned disagreement is vital to scientific inquiry, as is scrupulous honesty in both methodology and the gathering/presentation of data.
After all, whatever it is, it is what it is, and we won't understand it by assuming it is what it isn't, much less demanding that that assumption be accepted without dissent.
I understand your point. I wouldn’t want to disparage true scientific study and theories. When a citizen applies for a grant , entrance to a college a job or social welfare programs they can be prosecuted for fraud fired or some other remedy for not being truthful. I’d just like the same standard for agenda driven pseudoscience for profit. If data is faked or cherry picked for favorable results and negative data thrown out because it does not support a forgon conclusion or support the theory and it is used to change policy to remove money from us or enrich the believers thru grants, paychecks or business ventures that profit from phony data then prosecute them.