When Did Science Become Cool?

Over the past ten years it seems math, science and politics have suddenly become trendy for no apparent reason.  I have nothing against math or science but there's some things in life just not meant to be cool.

Here's why it upsets me that they are popular, our knowledge of both subjects is minuscule.  Seriously, we don't know that much about the world around us.  Sure we've documented a few theorems and named a few plants here and there, but the amount we don't know far outweighs what we think we know.  Our list of unaccomplishments is exceedingly long.

As evidence I submit the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.  In the movie the crew travels back in time to save some humpback whales.  They arrive in San Francisco during the year 1986 and start looking for whales to bring to the future.  In one scene they are at Mercy Hospital and the crew's doctor (McCoy) starts ranting and raving on how we practiced such "medieval medicine" in the 20th century.

If you need further evidence I submit the movie Men in Black.  In the beginning of the movie Will Smith has to decide if he wants to become a secret agent and fight aliens.  To convince him Tommy Lee Jones says "...Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

We need to stop patting ourselves on the back for having accomplished so much and realize we don't know much about anything.  We're like the new boss at an office who thinks he knows everything when in fact he's an idiot.  

I think science and math are great fields to study and work in, but they are by no means the truth of our world.