I recently saw this video of author and journalist Michael Specter. He makes the argument that recent fear mongering over science in our society will be the ultimate undoing of us. While rather extreme in claiming that, I agree that there is way too much distrust in our culture over Science. People misunderstand what it is and compare it to a religion with falsified rhetoric and anecdotal claims.
If you sit down and watch this video, I highly recommend that you do, I think you’ll see the point Mr. Specter is trying to make rings very true in our culture.