/sci/ - Science & Math

I'm not only talking about climate change, or other controversial science subject. Each paper in Science and Nature, the two top scientific journals are laden with 30-40 citations. In PNAS (Proceedings National Academy of Science) widely considered to be the 3rd highest impact factor, there is no citation limit and the average citation for one manuscript is by the hundreds.Everything is like IPCC says xxx. The UN says xxx. Bob et al. 2018 says xxx.
Every scientific discussion on disagreement boils down to this peer reviewed study say this, and this peer reviewed study say that. Every science communicator says "trust the scientists" because you cannot do the science yourself. Modern science is so complex these days that amateurs cannot do experiments in their garage (like Galileo built a telescope in his attic) and overturn a whole discipline.

Do you think this trend is hindering the progress of science?