As I've pointed out before
Lot of people "need" Science as religion, they do, it's how we humans often "tick"
They need something concrete to be sure of in life, hence religious rote and dogma is such a big thing.
Like it or not, the Age of Enlightenment DID NOT CHANGE THIS
People are people....
It did encourage more open mindedness and practical experiment and when things proved useful, and usually ONLY when found profitable in some way, accepted (profit not just in financial ways but in practical benefit etc)
And people vet very caught up in their work and again need for certainty as they age, life is terribly scary
So people often become more more conservative and stubborn as they age
Hence some scientists have refuses to think outside their comfort zone, even Einstein did it, because he was Human. I'm no differentx lol I just understand this
Alas, sticking to "accepted wisdom" often damns victims to suffering when it comes to some areas such as Medical science, history is full of it and rarely ever have the blinkered arseholes ever been publicly prosecuted or shamed for it while alive
And, power money and politics have lot to do with medical science, proof of this the Eugenics abomination and Lysenko and the mad Cold War experiments both sides got up to
So, it is a PROPAGANDISED arena
Proof is in the huge number of fraudulent studies, and things like the Science Media Centre
So what happens is even well meaning people can be blinded by having their biases supported by propaganda and fraud
And those biases are emphasized in the media
Any serious event the media damn will NOT represent the facts and varied opinio to you to consider
No
They will always heavily bias it towards Their Master's Voice
BBC, Murdoch's obscene empire, etc
Often entirely misquoting people or taking it out of context
Gulags, gas chambers and jackboots are to obvious, would cause rebellion
Orwell got it wrong
It's not a boot smashing into a face eternally
It's a sociopathic school marm telling people they have been naughty and should listen to what she says, while much of the evidence against her statements is put in hard to reach places, not hidden no that would be obvious, just difficult and anyone who digs for it gets marked into the "naughty person's file" and ridiculed for being "tin foil hat"
School marms don't do such things! They do if they have the soul of Ilse Koch