[garion888]

I think the focusing has happened already. When someone/group doubts a scientific theory due to their focus on its incompleteness, they tend to toss the baby with the bathwater. They may think if its not right all the time its never right.

Or take the case when someone who is unfamiliar with the formalism of science/mathmatics draws an incorrect conclusion about a theory and they happen to have a strong voice in the community. In this case, the community becomes aware of the "defect" before anyone who totally understands the theory is able to call the bullshit.

Then events happen where a cute remark by a scientist gets taken out of context and the public hears a lot about it. The case at Brookhaven where someone made a joke about their experiment and its ability to collapse the entire universe.

Lay people already focus on the disconnect between scientific theory and reality. Sometimes its sinister but most times I think that they end just not investigating far enough into a particular theory.