Perhaps that's because our young "skulls-full-of-mush" students are taught in schools, colleges and universities that anthropogenic global warming is a fact and nuclear power is bad for you. Consequently, when presented with individuals who evince either point of view, the "climate scientist" is believed whereas the nuclear scientist is just a half-step removed from Dr. Strangelove. Any dissenting views to what is taught in our schools and in the main stream media are howled down without a fair hearing.
In the aftermath of Three Mile Island, people would approach me in laundry mats and other venues and ask me questions. When asked why they weren't told about the things I told them, I explained to them that they were. ConEd, back in those days, took out full-page ads in the local papers but they were ignored because they were perceived as having a vested interest in lying to us. The "vested interests" of the so-called climate scientists are better hidden in grants and subsidies from the federal government. As such, since the "selfish self-interest" of the climate scientists isn't made public, they are presented as being more "honest". That same phenomenon can be observed in any number of other areas of science.
