Science reporting is a major related problem for sure. Science “journalism” is often barely more than reporting on a sentence in the abstract and then putting opinions about what that means. They report on single studies that show tiny effect sizes, and then use that to say things like “people who eat potatoes are better at pickleball” and often ignore statistical significance and effect size. Then they’ll do the same thing with a study that says the opposite, and we wonder why people don’t understand or trust science.