Most of the time, "science tells us" means "this question is not sufficiently interesting or relevant, and human life is several orders of magnitude too short t

Most of the time, "science tells us" means "this question is not sufficiently interesting or relevant, and human life is several orders of magnitude too short to question everything". We all resort to "trusting the experts" in almost every action we take, because there are no feasible alternatives. Believing in flat earth is basically a result of poorly calibrated trust heuristics. People may believe in it due to lack of education, for social/political/ideological reasons, or because they are contrarians. Or due to a random chance because the question is not particularly relevant to them.