Does this guy not realize "the root cause of the problem, which he argues is the public overidealising science" is itself caused by miseducation and lack of transparency? So it's not the root cause of the problem. And lack of trust isn't bad anyway unless that trust is lower than is warranted by reality (and currently it is not).

It's always the same with these people: anything less than 100% trust (in elections, journalists, science, etc.) is presupposed to be bad. Rather like the Gell-Mann effect, they selectively forget there is something called a healthy skepticism when it comes to their pet subject.