And they get grants to publish a lot of stuff that's causing our nation to "perish."
Studies on the environment, education, healthcare - you name it, these studies are being pumped out of these liberal hot houses called higher education (studies published in house or in publications like "Science," where they're "peer reviewed" by like minded ideologues), while opposite opinions are blocked.
People are told that there is consensus among scientists and that if it comes out of a university it's sacrosanct - if you object, question or in anyway disagree you're label as anti-[fill in the blank] and will be shamed and shunned.
Science has become dangerously politicized.
Eisenhower’s Farewell Address warned against exactly that:Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.