Fermat's last theorem is an example of my point, in that the people who actively oppose the scientific position are not basing their opposition on a rejection of Fermat's last theorem, or of anything else that can only be understood by a tiny minority of specialists. For the most part, those who oppose the application of science in certain areas of public policy are not doing so on the basis of an epistemological question over how science reached its current position, they do so on the basis of not liking the outcome.