Thomas Kuhn s Philosophy of Science masterpiece, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , describes the discovery of new scientific paradigms, such as Einstein s, and the tremendous resistance it faced from scientists. Scientists, being human, are just as prone to errors in life as anyone else. They can defend their investment in the old paradigm, often to the death. So when some pseudo or wannabe scientist tells you that Star Trek is hogwash because Einstein said you can t exceed the speed of light, they re living the present paradigm and ignorant of what a paradigm is. Experts in a particular science are not real Scientists unless they understand what Science, per se, is in other words, a higher level of abstraction.
Some people can t see the forest for the bark.
Otherwise, you are working at too low a level of abstraction. Otherwise, we ve excluded half the population. Likewise, we can t rely solely on our feelings which may be based upon our personal upbringing. As we have seen above, these are anything but universal. Let s not.