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>science
You mean academia as an institute, not scientific research
>if science was about anything even remotely close to search for objective truth
It's not. You can't KNOW. Reality is far more complex than any human brain can fathom, or even human civilization as a whole.
The aim of scientific research is to create a model with a certain degree of probability that it's an accurate description of events in the outside world. That model needs to be attacked, weaknesses in reasoning need to be exposed, flaws in the data, incongruities. Then, you are forced to come up with a new model, one without the weaknesses and flaws that have been pointed out, and you can be quite certain that the new model is likely a more accurate description than the previous one. Once again, you want your new model to be attacked, new weaknesses exposed, so you can go on to make an even more reliable one.
You aim for 70% certainty, 75%, 80%, 82.5%, 85%, 87.5%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 92.5%, 92.6%, 92.65%, 92.7%.
You never, ever, aim for 100%. Because if you make that claim, you stop looking, you've "found it". Instead of looking for weaknesses in your reasoning, you start to enforce your view like a dogma or religion. And if you're wrong, you'll never know it, because you're no longer looking.