> The fact remains that distrust of science continues to grow.

Of course it does, billion-dollar interests who have a vested interest in attacking it have a well-funded propaganda arm, and as we've been discovering over the past century - angry, loud, and frequently repeated bullshit with a profit motive floods any signal out of the room.

What's really sad is people who have legitimate concerns or desires for improvement hitching their horse-cart to the former.

No amount of peer review or replication is going to convince someone whose fortune is built on peddling snake oil.

> Ignoring the problem is not going to fix it,

Here's a solution. Hold the people making these attacks to the same level of rigor as what they are attacking. Stop giving proven liars a loudspeaker. The day the press will do that is the day some meaningful progress to fix that damage may be made.

Until you do that, we're going to continue getting shit outcomes.