Good place to start with the 8 out of ten thing is with the pew research comparing the public vs scientists opinions on things.
https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2015/01/29/public-and-scientists-views-on-science-and-society/
Only 16% of… scientists and 29% of the general public rank U.S. STEM education for grades K-12 as above average… in the world.
It’s simple, when the science gets politicized, many people stop trusting it.
The scientific method is what should count, not the soundbyte.
Nothing involving the thoughts and ideas of millions of people is simple.
Hell. Very little involving the thoughts and ideas of a individual person is simple.
I often ask them to tell me what they think “the scientific method” is.
They tend to waffle about big pharma and Hiroshima so I give them a four minute ELI5 animation from YouTube to watch. They never do watch it though.
