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the problem is the population conception of things must be portrayed in a super simplistic narrative. and lay people think that narrative is how things work because they have no experience of the actual processes that go on in highly specialized areas of knowledge and research and such processes are entirely opaque to them.
hence why a lot of people hate science and don't trust it, because they literally can't understand it. the science they learn in high school is nothing like the way in which contemporary science is done. and they feel like that is a failure of science itself, that it scientific inquiry can't be a simple as a high school physics experiment than it's 'wrong'.
I used to teach philosophy and about 70% of my students just straight give up on learning it once they realize they won't get 'answers' out of it. their POV is that it's suppose to give them answers they can use to beat other 'stupid' people over the head with... they don't understand that they are learning a process or a skill. like they come into philosophy 102 thinking they will 'learn' the 'answer' to the question of ethics of abortion, and get angry/upset that they come away 'knowing' less than they did before, and feel 'cheated'.
average people don't want to think, or challenge themselves intellectual. this want clear, definite, and simple answers from which to construct a worldview that is consistent and unchanging and therefore 'correct'. and simplistic pop-psychology gives them that. so does religion. so does high school coursework in science.