This is a huge problem actually. Sometimes "scientific illiteracy" is not a creationist flat earther or whatever easy target, but an avid follower of the I Fucking Love Science Facebook page who says "Believe Scientists!". Either way they don't know what science is and treat it like a religious cosmology of ultimate truth to believe or disbelieve for which "scientists" are the divine vessels, instead of a process or communal enterprise.
The latter kind of people actually do sometimes "burn out" and by that i mean come into contact with a very typical uncertainty or debate among scientists for the first time & come to the conclusion that science is fake now.
















