If you want to read more about the threat to scientific inquiry, we recommend this important paper by Jerry A. Coyne and Luana S. Maroja.
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2023/06/the-ideological-subversion-of-biology/
Cherie Calbom in her 2005 book, The Coconut Oil Diet, shares what was known about coconut oil, the history, and the trans fats debacle that’ll tell someone all they need to know about how the system works. She was published and corporations went apoplectic. She shares what she went through because of her research that they never wanted to get out.
I remember the story of how a couple of scientists killed the AIDS virus with an electrical current that. For being thrilled with the breakthrough, it was retracted by them publicly and forcefully the next day. At the same time, I knew from missionaries about people in Africa getting healed by touching electrified fences.