Science is full of dogmas/collective stories. The problem is that many of them are incomplete or just wrong. This was a great discussion about dogmas with Mike Gazzaniga, Richard Watson and Michael Levin:
https://youtu.be/a_rNUUJWLGs?si=IEIQpnfY1QOA9cBW
In the past I tried a few times to bring my clinical experience and challenge the beliefs of researchers in the field of chronic pain. I encountered only backlash.
But let’s take a neutral field for me. For example, the idea that memory is encoded in the brain synapses has some serious holes when you look in various animals. Apparently, in the little worms called planaria the memory is definitely not just in the brain. You can train these worms, cut their head and the body will grow a new head and still have the memory of what they were trained to do. Another example are the caterpillars. You train the caterpillars, then they turn into butterflies and still they have the memory of the caterpillars. The crazy part is that their whole brain gets completely reorganized in the process of turning into butterflies There are various practitioners who believe that our bodies have memories of our past experiences. Other people consider these practitioners crazy. But are they crazy?
https://now.tufts.edu/2013/07/18/flatworms-lose-their-heads-not-their-memories
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13412-butterflies-remember-caterpillar-experiences/