The practice of the scientific method is the path to empirical truth. This doesn't necessarily mean that a nominal scientific finding is true. It is likely true that, on a given topic, an acredited scientist in that field has fairly correct opinions, but I would not take this too far. Conflicts of interest, personal biases, incentives to obtain results, simple lack of reproduction, corrupt peer review, etc. are clearly issues, and it's all the more unfortunate that we can't even say just how deep these issues run.

Science is timeless and powerful. Scientists are human beings that nominally, preferably, fallibly practice science.