This is where science as a whole scores over the individual scientist, in that the method is self-correcting and biases tend towards cancelling out. It's the exact opposite of religiously motivated pseudoscientific preaching, which only amplifies in propagation. That's why we see the same Hovind shit bob back to the surface time and again.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'