Scientific method.

People don’t trust scientists because when something is unfolding in real time the public lives thru the steps of scientific method. People seeing scientists recommend things and then also seeing them adjusting or changing them. People are used to having 1/

the final conclusion handed to them, and not used to the scientists going through the iterative process of
observing
questioning
hypothesizing
predicting
experimenting
checking to see if it’s working...

and then revising the test plan and starting over. 2/

I’m preaching to the choir since pretty much everyone who follows me has a good grasp of scientific method, has a formal science background, or is a life long learner of science but this is my 2 cents pieced together from the past 4 months or so.