I think the subtext of the polling, that poor and minority folks report lower rates of trust in “science”, seems to be about the way that science doesn’t occur in a vacuum, it occurs within power structures and when you’re on the lower rungs of any system of power, that will shape your opinions about it.

My read on this is that when “science” becomes the sphere of mega-corporations and pharma giants, on some level it’s going to occur to your everyday folk as a tool of oppression more than as a boon to civilization.