Look at those show notes!
 I wish science was as pure as you say it is but were money is concerned, and you can't deny people have gotten wealthy because of covid-19, the science gets tainted. Richard Feynman would often point out how difficult science experiments are to do, especially in biological science, were control of variables is almost impossible. Proof that the science around covid is as muddled as any science, can be seen when the scientists decided to vaccinate the placebo group in the study, 
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/969143015/long-term-studies-of-covid-19-vaccines-hurt-by-placebo-recipients-getting-immuni 
(yes that is the whole url). That decision was driven by opinion, not facts. Science is hard and flawed. 

Trusting the experts can lead to things like systemd and them saying 'just trust us it works'.

Also, much of what we call science is actually engineering, developement of RISC architecture is probaby done by engineers, whose goals are different than scientists.

lastly a famous scientist said 

'If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.'

Albert Einstein