Why is Science so Easy for People to Ignore?

Lately the challenge of distinguishing facts from falsehoods has been a lively topic of discussion online. Freethinkers frequently express their belief in science rather than religion or politics, for reasons such as the one I read most recently:

"... With science, you know what you know, there are facts you can stand on and reason from in certain surety. But politics is mostly about follow-the-money with some well-meaning exceptions, religion is a smile on a dog, a lie in the fog, humanity is about primates too smart for their own good."

But with science, most non-scientists only think they know what they know. If you think like a scientist, you know that scientific knowledge is tentative and can be subject to revision in the future, following new discoveries. That's both its strength and its weakness. Science is the most reliable path to truth about the world, but the easiest to dismiss by ideologues because none of its truths are absolute. People desiring absolute truth often find it in religious, political, and economic ideologies which, driven by charismatic leaders, propel many of the dangerous trends we see today - pollution, global warming, unregulated free markets, discrimination against "undesirable" populations, wars, and reliance on "dogs and fogs" to save the world.

Maybe the human race wasn't ready for science when it arose in the middle of the second millennium. Given their natural desires to survive, to reproduce, and to seek absolute truth, humans have been enabled by science to overpopulate the planet and amplify their impact on the biosphere to apocalyptic levels.

What next? I think Generation Z will double down on science to get us out of this mess. If Mother Nature takes its course with no further advances from science, She will wipe out civilization and possibly exterminate the human race. That's what the Gaia Hypothesis would predict. Let's see what happens.