What this all fails to consider are the undisclosed incentives and motivations of those “doing the science”. It is shockingly easy to lie with statistics, mass

What this all fails to consider are the undisclosed incentives and motivations of those “doing the science”. It is shockingly easy to lie with statistics, massage experimental results, or just straight up fabricate the whole damn thing to further your career, get a grant, ego or whatever. What percentage of published research papers are able to be reproduced? Very few. Many “non-intellectuals” inherently know all of the above about human nature, but suffer ridicule when they don’t “trust the science”. It doesn’t take a blue check mark next to your name to realize that people are fallible and will lie to get ahead.