Science itself is a tool. Like any tool if you do not understand it, do not understand how it works or how to use it properly you will of course get people who refuse it. Uneducated people I have learned, are not uneducated out of a lack of knowledge for the most part but because of many other factors. Refusal to admit they were wrong about something for example.
People can be astoundingly stubborn when they think they're right. Take for example my family. My father, his father and my stepmom were/are people who did/do think it's okay to use screws as drill bits. Now I know this is a stupid thing and anyone who has worked with wood for any extensive amount of time will tell you this is stupid but these three people figured that since it has always been okay for them to use screws in this way then it means they don't really need to do things like drill pilot holes before forcing a screw in through a solid chunk of wood.
Most people don't like to admit when they are wrong or when they have made a mistake. The current climate in most cultures, especially online, is that to admit a mistake is to invite doubt upon every action you have ever made. To change your mind is to appear as though you have no faith in your own position.
And this is what I think people misunderstand about science and scientists. Science is all about asking questions and finding answers to those questions and continuing to look for answers to questions we have answered. Most people think once you answer a question well enough that's it, end of line. Scientists on the other hand not only keep asking the same questions over and over they ask how many different ways can they ask the question.
To be more literal, even when scientists know how an experiment will work cause they've done it a hundred times, they'll keep doing the experiment again and again and again because you never know, some tiny unknowable variable might change the results and that change of results is exciting. It's a mystery to solve.
Doing this kind of methodical examination is not for everyone. Most people don't like to be proven wrong but for a scientific mind there is nothing better than being proven wrong about something because it means there's something new to see, something new to explore, a door they didn't even know was there has been kicked open. It might lead to a simple answer that makes everyone go "Oh. so that's what it was" or it could lead to a whole new field of science no one ever even thought to try.
And I also think there's a bit of existential horror for a lot of people when it comes to science. Science tells us that life, while unique and precious and infinitely complex is, at the end of the day, just matter like everything else. All the atoms that make up our bodies are all composed by different quantities of the same three pieces. Three pieces. Protons, Neutrons, Electrons, make
everythingScience tells us that atoms are mostly empty space and that matter itself is made up mostly of absolutely nothing at all.
Science tells us that the universe had a beginning and it will have an ending and in the grand scheme of all things humanity and Earth will be little more than a tiny "Yop!" on a speck of dust in a vast and empty darkness.
And most average people's heads would explode with Lovecraftian insanity trying to wrap their heads around our being here in a universe so big and vast and unnoticing of our presence.
So for the anti-science crowd it's likely more reassuring to cover their ears, shut their eyes tight and drown everything out that that don't want to listen to because it's easier and safer and lets them feel some tiny measure of control over their corner of the universal asylum.
Personally I believe science is the greatest tool that we have ever made. Science, like the universe, does not care what we think, what we feel, what we want to have happen. Science, done right, shows us what is. It shows us the truth of things. It has no preconceived notions, no borders, no faiths. If you destroyed every single scientific textbook on the planet and got rid of every scientific mind and started over completely from scratch you would find all the same answers to all the same questions that came before.
That is the power of science.
Sorry to ramble but I am very passionate about this topic. Can you tell?
(also my most sincere apologies to anyone who might not sleep tonight because I gave you an existential crisis)