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Right, and imagine just how you'd react if it were proven to you that this was indeed all a facade? My model of the world doesn't have much room for something like that, where something that works literally quadrillions of times a day in basically exactly the way that all the scientists and engineers and experts and my own limited expertise say they do, and yet all of those are complete lies. This would be a revelation that comes close to - not quite, but close - to waking up in a pod and discovering that you had been in The Matrix.
Significantly, I'd wager that the belief by the typical non-stupid layman believer in those already-proven-to-be-stupid fields like sociology, [x] studies, psychology, etc. is about as strong and about as confident as mine is to electrical engineering. It's both reinforced by and causal to the constant defense such people run against scrutinizing such things with basic scientific/academic concepts like "evidence" and "logic." And if those people can be fooled into such stupid beliefs about sociology, then I could be fooled into an equally stupid belief about electrical engineering.
I don't know about electrical engineering, but at least in math, I expect it's far easier to change someone's mind with evidence than it is in a social science. Even with informal proofs, there's a greater shared understanding and trust of axioms that, when put together, invalidate (or confirm) an argument.
Occasionally a math paper gets retracted for errors, but it seems far rarer than psychology, and with much less controversy. Meanwhile, many theorems are getting formalized in Lean, effectively "replicating" the proofs, many are successful and the vast majority are successful or pending.
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