"Blind trust in science" is the wrong way to phrase it, which is exactly the problem, because people do it anyway. The popular meme is to "go with the science",

"Blind trust in science" is the wrong way to phrase it, which is exactly the problem, because people do it anyway. The popular meme is to "go with the science", regardless of the fact that that's barely definable. BTW it's really clear in cases where the "science" result is orthogonal to their existing beliefs: did "pro-maskers" have opinions about masks[0] in 2019? Mostly no. Now think about, say, astronomy results. Lots of people will just go with it, whatever it is, if it has a convincing "science" label on it. [0] DON'T PANIC, I think masks are fine.