Is science not about finding the truth above all else?

Mm .... Maybe?

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has the most relevant writing on this.

The search for truth is fundamentally epistemological. There is a fascinating dive into just what science is, when it began, etc.

One might disagree with his language, but this post is remarkably insightful to begin such a dive:

http://fucktheory.tumblr.com/post/57633497486/in-which-steve...