Personally speaking, if there's one profession that deserves a lot more credit for the positive things that exist in the world, it's the engineers who actually build stuff. An engineer can't bullshit you to the level that a bad scientist can: there's no faking or ambiguity about a bridge that can't stand upright or a building that collapses.
Hero complexes work when an individual can make broad effective change. They don't work in situations requiring heavy cooperation and coordination.
Science is a cooperative field. As is law enforcement and medicine. (Teaching may be a bit different - a lone good teacher can make a difference but you need enough cooperation still).
A perfect example is when coronavirus started, people were told by the scientific beaurocrats and the corporate media that they could not go to work or school, that they could not go to visit family, that everything would shut down. And they were told that this was the only way to prevent catastrophe.
Fast forward to the Black Lives Matter, Inc. "protests", which began a couple of months later, and those same scientific beaurocrats and the corporate media were literally saying that "social justice" was more important than social distancing. That thousands of people marching shoulder to shoulder should in no way be seen as a "super spreader". Because we all know that "the science" shows that the virus doesn't affect you if it knows you're fighting for "social justice".
So don't confuse the beaurocrats in lab coats with actual scientists. No actual scientist talks about science in terms of 'trust' and 'believe'. Science is about questioning, testing hypothesis and trying to verify as best as you can. Trust and belief is the realm of religion. They might as well start telling people to "have faith in the science".
People should be able to have confidence in the methods and motives of the science and health professionals. But that will only happen if we get to hear from the actual scientists whose only agenda is actual science.