Many working scientists, along with many more science writers and academics chide the public often for - what they claim are - “anti-science” views. What is really going on in the public mind is not a rebuke of science but a rebuke of many scientists, for their own arrogance, their own constantly excessive claims and for tailoring science, and scientific claims to political agendas.
It’s all explained here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM&spfreload=10