In Physics, there are lots of counterintuitive results for a truthseeker to have to accept, so it probably helps someone become more rational.
In the same time, physics students usually accept this by authority, and only later learn all the details which constitute the evidence implying the counterintuitive theories, so this is a double-edged sword.
(The physicist training probably con’t be much improved in that. If the students had to really see that e.g. quantum mechanics is really the best theory to explain the observed phenomena, they had to go through a lot of blind alleys that physicists examined between 1900 and 1930 - and it isn’t without a reason that it took about thirty years to formulate QM in a coherent form.)
In the same time, physics students usually accept this by authority, and only later learn all the details which constitute the evidence implying the counterintuitive theories, so this is a double-edged sword.
(The physicist training probably con’t be much improved in that. If the students had to really see that e.g. quantum mechanics is really the best theory to explain the observed phenomena, they had to go through a lot of blind alleys that physicists examined between 1900 and 1930 - and it isn’t without a reason that it took about thirty years to formulate QM in a coherent form.)