You can take pride in your own work even if others don't. That is the same regardless of the career path you choose.
Again, not the citizens' fault. They don't know the difference. If you want to blame people for not trusting science, they would need a way to tell the difference between science that was real and "science" that wasn't. And that is _very_ difficult.
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If there was a lot of very vocal denunciation of, eg., medical and psychological sciences by other sciences, that would be one thing. But in general there has been very little of that and a lot more blaming of people for not "trusting science" without differentiating.
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Stated alternately, if you want to blame someone for not believing in "science", you first have to explain how that person was supposed to tell the difference between real science and fake science. How is the average citizen going to do that?
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Still, I don't blame the scientific community for this state of affairs. I blame marketing firms, our faltering underfunded education system, and more recently soc media for amplifying BS and blurring the line between it and fact.