They know a lot and there is not much dissention in the scientific community except on the very fringes which most of the community dismisses as stuff that real data is not showing to be true.
You are probably not wrong, but there are two things that have been done wrong and have contributed to the suspicions. 1. When the people telling us what to do and not do, do not know something, they should just say so. In this way, Fauci has been very harmful. He was the wrong messenger and continues to do the cause more harm than good if they want to convince people to do things and 2. The censorship. Nothing makes people, even rational people, get their backs up more than telling them that there is info they do not have a right to see.
As it turns out, some of what they have censored and the people they have censored, have had good info and are very knowledgeable people.
This was especially true when there was no vaccine and no proven treatment, but some clinicians were finding that in many people certain combinations of drugs helped. It was not bad info. It was not wrong info. It was something that doctors could try when they had nothing else to use and the drugs were safe drugs. Even so, info and people talking about those drugs and combinations of drugs were shut down and de-platformed.
You want people to do a thing and trust it, you have to act trustworthy. Many of the "scientists" and most of the press and SM platforms have failed.