Microbiology is a STEM subject, a 'hard' science, where you have fairly stringent criteria for evaluating the reproducability of truth claims. Fields that lack

Microbiology is a STEM subject, a 'hard' science, where you have fairly stringent criteria for evaluating the reproducability of truth claims. Fields that lack reproducability, replace this (i.e. truth) by community consensus which is enforced, in parts, by threats.