These theories like climate change, OOA, and others pick up inertia because they fit into a bigger paradigm.
Likewise entire empirical measures that can be repeated such as IQ or HIV infection rates based on sexual behaviors are discarded because they go against the paradigm.
So called “science” is a cheap whore. It tends to validate whatever folks want to believe, that which somehow supports the prevailing socially accepted goal or ethical standard.
Great quote.