Science by nature is constantly changing and discovering the ways in which it was wrong before, so the idea of "scientific authority" was always more or less im

Science by nature is constantly changing and discovering the ways in which it was wrong before, so the idea of "scientific authority" was always more or less imaginary. Furthermore, what gets presented to the public as "science" is increasingly a series of clickbaity tall tales and biased studies. Scientific authority is dying because it's not in people's interest to take scientists as an "authority". That's not to say that the cynicism that's replacing it is better, though.