>>12435456All the institutions of the world are incredibly corrupt, but higher levels of science require too much studying to talk about, compared to things like politics or history. When you combine a learned suspicion of all authority with something mysterious and beyond reach, there is going to be an understandable skepticism.
If people were allowed to talk about subjects without constant gate-keeping over the fact that you apparently need a Ph.D to say what an atom is, and even if you have a Ph.D, you need the approval of the elitist cliques that run the journals, the universities, and some organizations before your iron-clad, irrefutably proven statement is allowed to be recognized as non-pseudoscience you would probably have a more accepting attitude towards science and talk/learn about it more. But the scientific community itself bears the brunt of the blame. They act like jackasses and declare themselves to be authorities, so people are naturally treating them like jackasses and holding them to the standards they hold authorities to.
