Increasing skepticism of science and evidence-based decision making.
Unfortunately, the scientific method has been replaced by trust of authorities, which are proving themselves untrustworthy. The implosion of fraudulent monetary systems will complete this cycle.
Evidence-based reality will resume its ascendency, when fraudulent money is no longer available to cover over bad decision-making.
Observe specifically what happens to municipalities that depend on government largesse, and have no productive agricultural or engineering capacity, and few in the community with internal moral imperative, and the will and capability to defend the innocent...
Similarly at policy level: there is much research, but often its application is very much dependent on the frame (eg city vs region vs national scale; strong-trust Nordic country context vs low-trust Balkans or US; etc).
In the end you need the policy decision to be well reasoned and evidence-based, but this is often difficult to manage and even more difficult to communicate (especially in a polarized society like the US where everyone is either friend or enemy in the political space).
Yeah, most of us could probably stand to be more empathetic, but part of how we know this is because of evidence. Your statement is too simple.
It’s only been the last 100ish years of the masses shifting from sky wizards to science.
There’s gonna be a learning curve and lots of “nope, not that.”
The paranoia over science and the replication issue is overblown.
What you should probably be skeptical of is not “science” as a concept but what other humans tell you it means. Which is just good life advice.