The average person is losing faith in science because of high profile failures, and the distrust is only increasing.
I fear Nasim Talib is right.
https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...
Science has a huge PR problem in that it is FAR less funded than the people with money and power whom it sometimes comes into conflict with.
He believes trump supporters/and brexit fans are voting in their own interests as opposed to being duped to serve others, describs intellectual persuits as not proper jobs and further states
"people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons."