Richard Feynman said anything you can't prove yourself must be taken on pure faith and most of the public must take everything on pure faith as somehow they've left school without the faintest idea how basic stats work.
Feynman was talking to scientists. I do think that science has to provide answers, not just data. The public interprets every datum in a myriad of ways, and does not have a mechanism to establish consensus, hence you would end up with constant crisis.