30 years ago these people would have been put in a rubber room.
Today they are revered educators....................
Science went off the rails back in the 1970's when the government, foundations, and corporations started funding research to prove a predetermined result and cut off funding for research that was based on the scientific method (i.e., an unbiased, empirical search for the truth).
If scientific research doesn't follow the evidence wherever it leads, regardless of the outcome, it isn't science.