When a valid study is retracted by its authors because they don't like the conclusions being drawn from it, when a university professor is fired for citing research that his university published, when journals publish any research that conforms to certain political views, even when it is obvious garbage, it is not science being distrusted because it is not science which is being performed.

When we are told by scientists that masks don't work, and then, with no new research being done, we are told by scientists that we must all wear masks, it is not science being performed. It is propaganda. I distrust propaganda.

In any field in which I am not an expert it takes time to determine if something that is claimed to be science is really science, or if it is propaganda. I trust the scientific method but I don't trust that people claiming to be scientists are using it.