Can you point to prominent examples of it from a nontrivial number of major figures in the actual sciences? (As in, not in pop science, nor media figures merely reporting on science.)
Personally, I've never seen this supposed condescension. I've seen a lot of people claim it exists, but so far as I can tell, it's just a meme, a self-reinforcing narrative. Its only external support seems to be that people are upset that they can't actually understand scientific papers without....spending time learning what the terms mean and possibly getting a background education in the subjects they're talking about.
But that's not condescension. That's just scientists doing science and people expecting everything in the world to be simple enough to be understood in a sound bite.
So...not taking a vaccine because one doesn't like the attitude of people recommending it. Yet the "elites"--whoever the hell they are--have the attitude problem.
Do these people also believe the Earth is flat because Galileo was a poophead?
It's about time we call people who reflexively believe the opposite of whatever the "left" or the "progressives" say by their true names: right-wing reactionaries.
