Let's go for the power and leave the truth to fend for itself. Major scientific advances tend to take us from parochial to more universal perceptions. Newtonian physics is fine for navigating satellites around the solar system and pretty much useless in bubble chambers. A community is not likely, on a whim, to re-tool and head off in another direction. It will take something substantial to precipitate such a change of direction.
Science advances more through such communal consciousness that through individual consciousness.
We will gain more communal power if we explore ways of harnessing, recognising, facilitating and communicating with this high-order, social consciousness. This time, it is the more sinister social powers of position, importance and influence. It is this power that allows a flawed edifice to grow to gargantuan proportions. It is this power that is largely responsible for the severity of the eventual conceptual earthquake that will devastate the respective community when it strikes. Now, I suspect, this will be true of biological science.