The philosophical error began with the devil in the beginning, when he said he would not serve. That philosophy has wrought havoc in every department of human thought and human life and human science. (I might add, even the arts.)
I can't believe that any Catholic who gives it any thought could miss the obvious truth that something has happened to the sciences, and indeed to every other sphere of human life and learning. But it all goes back to some person or persons who refuse the truth, and who made their lives about defeating it by erecting lies... like Darwin did against creationism.
You would almost have to take it field by field and sphere by sphere to discern what ideas of what men poisoned each particular area, but as a whole, it all goes back to men who do not want God or the truth, and who therefore decided to work against it. Modern man's heroes are the characters who simply did that better than anyone else. Like Freud or Darwin.
As for modern science, it's time that everybody began looking for the proverbial man behind the curtain... that is, it's time people realized that most of it has been a spectacular outward show, with all kinds of fantasy and promises attached to it... but with a reality that is often quite different. The reality is a bunch of revolutionary atheists or men of error, who have tried to reinvent the truth according to their own will and desire.
For example, modern man now thinks he can fix depression with a magic pill. In fact, modern man seems to think he can fix everything with a magic pill. But the doctors could not possibly admit to the public what happens to people who take those magic pills... for instance, the number of them who kill themselves, who never would have done so otherwise. The promise is that the doctors will be as gods, with the power to fix all human pain and suffering and illness. The reality is, at best they can dope people up so that they're indifferent enough about everything to not care about their problems, and at worst there are lots of much worse things that these pills do, than simply the patient feeling a little blue all the time. Like making people feel actually MORE depressed... and extremely so.
The parallel is there in medicine. They're going to vaccinate us until we are invincible! This time the promise is that WE will be as gods, living forever. The reality is not only aren't we living longer, healthier lives... but more people than ever are dying of cancer and the medicines themselves. And some of those who survive will be deprived of a normal life by autism or other severe handicaps. Notice that at some point, they had to do away with the Hippocratic Oath. Why? The answer was obvious. Some men thought it better to "advance" even if the result was harmful (in some cases even fatal), than to play it safe and realize our human limitations.
By sin death (and sickness) came into the world. I don't think mankind is going to get them back out of it, any more than we can erase original sin from everyone who enters into it. We are going to be chastised in some form or another for sin. Science would like to pretend otherwise. But the reality is there haunting us, with every drug induced ѕυιcιdє, every vaccine induced brain damage, and every proof of truth in this world.
Ultimately, all of the faulty science (and politics, arts, social problems, etc...) comes down to men who do not want to acknowledge God or the truth, and who are willing to let countless people die to keep this intellectual tower of Babel from toppling.