I'm not sure that matters. It's ok to eat cholesterol now, right? All these "mistakes" give science a black eye. We've already got a Climate Change trustworthyness problem and for some reason people don't trust vaccines, mostly educated people. As a nation, we refused to fund both the Hubble and the Supercollider, which would have been bigger than CERN.
It's probably time that we stopped making excuses and think of a better way to explain the "science" to people.
It's probably time that we stopped making excuses and think of a better way to explain the "science" to people.