[qzcx]

Agreed. However, I would argue that this is older than science itself. Before it was governments and religions who claimed to know better than science. Its about control, and hijacking science is a way to get "credibility". But I've got hope that real science will always win out eventually. It just takes time.

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Failing that, we can always study the hijacking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology - a field with a future!

[qzcx]

I was required to read Merchants of Doubt for my biology class in college. Pretty good read on this topic.