"unscientifically trained people"... meant to type people not rained in the sciences... but now I realize that I was actually correct the first time...

rote memorization is NOT scientific... nor is spitting out answers from the end of each chapter... even of science textbooks... because the answers are only as good as the current research and may very well change in the course of your career, much less your lifetime.

and the education that many people receive is not designed to encourage thinking too deeply about things, but rather to accept the "norm" and spit back facts without really understanding the context of those "facts".