This is getting pretty silly. Science is not subject to tinkering by non-scientists, and so has no need to have its procedures justified to the unwashed masses. Unlike most civilians, scientists are professionally required to vet their assumptions with extreme critical rigor. It is the audience that needs to come up to speed, or get lost, unlike politics, science is not dependent on winning a popularity contest amongst the under-educated masses that vote. Science has a product to offer, and the countries stupidly enough run not to buy it, fall off the map, eventually. For two obvious examples of countries that thought that politicians should examine science and improve its thought processes, try China and Russia in the last century.
You seem to be deluded in what makes up "science" and what may or may not be submitted as a scientific claim. You also seem to be incapable of recognizing the fact there are varying degrees of certitude with repect to the claims science makes, whether those claims are made by "professionals," as you call them, or the man on the street. In short, your thinking on these matters may be in need of an epistomological enema. One way or another we'll all get one, if not within the next few minutes, then within the next century. That is a scientific prediction.
It's not for lack of worship of your Science god, that they had problems. It was for lack of a humane Philosophy.