Had it not been for the entire Anthropogenic Global Warming/"Climate Change" hoax, the promotion of mental illness as 'normal' and the attempts to make it mainstream in society, The Lysenkoistic nonsense of using food for fuel, and a host of other abuses of scientific sounding nonsense, perhaps science would have a prayer with folks who have common sense and who observe their surroundings.
Between the Communists at Universities and Colleges, the charlatan politicians promoting snake-oil cures for evils which either do not exist or that humanity cannot control (for fun and profit, lots of profit), and the patent hypocrisy of those proponents, perhaps real science would stand a chance.
Unfortunately, after those who are at best marginally scientists (regardless of degree) are done wrecking the credibility of scientists for their own $pecial Intere$t$, at some point a critical issue will become a killer because of the damage done to that credibility by the charlatans. Two generations of children, literature, and popular media are saturated with the Climate Change nonsense--a hideous abuse which will cost us all dearly.