Science is by its nature exploratory, always refining, always discovering, always evolving. It is never settled. So when you are asked to "trust the science", you are really being asked to "trust the (current state of) science", which is partial at best, and often fallible. You can't reliably trust science any more than you can reliably trust data, since the data can be partial, incomplete, corrupt, with any analysis flowing from it to be equally as flawed. Trust should be reserved for that which is complete, reliable, unchanging and morally sound, not for something amoral, speculative and still in development.
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