It’s not too hard to draw the line from Big Tobacco paying for their own scientists to discredit anti-smoking efforts to this. It’s basically an extension of the same strategy. Agenda first (typically profit) and then you either find or invent the science to support the agenda. Even if you’re in the tiny minority, in the opinion of the voters one scientist vs. another equals “nobody really knows for sure.” (See also: Big Oil and climate change). This isn’t event particularly Trumpian, just GOP SOP.
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