Those horses were dead when found: one cannot prove the negative Iano insists be proven.
Still, by his assertions, all education is necessarily indoctrination. Yet people throw off indoctrination all the time, and this forum proves that education can fail.
What indoctrination could have been greater than that preceding the Enlightenment, when questioning the received truth of ecclesiastical authorities could get you imprisoned, exiled, or burned? Nonetheless, the stubbornly questioning mind went there, again and again.
But the non-starter at the heart of his assertion is the notion that only by mastering the
practice of a science can one reach reasonable judgments about the
products of that science, be they material or theoretical.
It is true that we cannot become experts in every science. But we can take a look at the reasonableness and productivity of their hypotheses. The power of Newtonian physics was ultimately demonstrated in machines that reduced toil, not on the printed page. The popular proof of Einstein's work was not found on the blackboard, it was found over Hiroshima.
It is the scientific method that confers an authority so great that Iano wants to call it indoctrination. We have become predisposed to listen closely when a broad consensus of scientists tells us something important, and with good reason: centuries of proven performance.
That we are like our parents, but different, and that we have greater or lesser success as a result of our traits, is obvious: no doctorate required. The popular knowledge of animal husbandry did much to gain Darwin's theory entry into 19th century minds. It was not a cabal of scientists that conferred wide acceptance of the ToE in the 20th century but rather the eminent
reasonableness of the theory in light of the geologic/fossil record, and the stunning successes of biological scientists who applied the theory: the Green Revolution, finely turned vaccinations, the forensic power of DNA analysis, the promise of new gene therapies for ancient scourges.
I suppose the greatest compliment paid to the ToE is the desperate flailing of Intelligent Designers: only by aping science can they hope to create any doubts at all.