The myth of apolitical science

What we might call the modern anti-science movement, starting with efforts to hide the obvious linkage between tobacco and cancer, and the rise of “climate skepticism”, has grown in scale enormously in the past half century. With the cross-pollination of dollars from the fossil fuel industry, the anti-abortion right and the war on trans youth, a politically motivated and morally bankrupt industry of experts-for-hire has been generating counter arguments for legal battles at unprecedented rates.