Most of these controversial questions contain more nuance than can be covered in a debate, though. You could say "simplify them", but simplifying a scientific topic is very difficult and time-consuming work at which scientists themselves often fail. And it's comparatively very easy to present an inaccurate simplified version, to make your opponent look wronger than they actually are.

My view on this is kind of pessimistic. The mindset of science, based on curiosity, feels to me like a small boat which can only sail when seas are relatively calm. But politics is a storm. The waves are too tall. Maybe the boat just cannot sail in this storm.