I have made it my MISSION that students DO science in first year chemistry. Run experiments, have their hypothesis shattered, collect data that does not support their initial claim, and argue over the meaning of data. Science is not as black and white as our textbooks show.
Part of the reason the pandemic is so bad in US is because people who are never involved with scientific method are seeing Science unfold in real-time. Errors, evidence, & changing methodology happen 100%, but in public eye, seen as "they have no idea what they're talking about."