It is the usual communist commutative political thinking. They use words like “scientific”, “smart” or “common sense”, as if a convicted whore for science was a scientist, type groupie system. It is a way for convicts to use politics to bypass their penalties and get elected, with useful idiot religion snobbing real scientists feeling flattered by it.
Most liberals are dunces and have no respect for science at all. They all hate school and learning, and they persecuted teachers and good students.
We see the same thing when they say a scientist like Alan Turing was gay and atheist. Or a woman CEO had abortions. Ok. These people were smart but were not perfect, so does at mean every dumned down convicted whore having abortions make a scientist? No! It is not commutative. They are just adopting the label while destroying the essence.