The idea that science is always right, dogmatic and scientists are a uniform group that stands apart from the laymen is the reason there is so much distrust in scientists and "experts" and there's conspiracy everywhere. "What they don't want you to know." or using the time a theory was proven wrong as proof that "science" is untrustworthy.

While reality like you say it's much simpler. Science is not about absolute truth that requires blind faith, it is about proving a theory or disproving an established one, with a simple logic process established since the Middle Ages. What we know today is just a pile of theories ready to be disproven and replaced by something better like we did with blood letting, ether filling up outer space and geocentric astronomy.

It's incredibly sad the majority of the people hasn't learned this fact either in life or even in middle school.