... and not just muslims. In their eagerness to denigrate Leonardo, they stooped to things like this:
“This undated notebook by another person is from roughly the same era as Leonardo, and shows a flotation device similar to his sketch of a life preserver. Could Leonardo have seen this? Historians say yes. He had access to many books.”
Didn’t even have the decency to prove that the notebook preceded Leonardo’s sketch, any more than bothering to prove that CO2 rise precedes temperature rise or follows it. Science is no longer being taught or employed — those who use the scientific method have to learn it alone.
You are absolutely right. The scientific method is being debased by cheaters in pursuit of grant money.
Junk science & consensus is being substituted for rigorous experiments and evaluations.
Emotional grandstanding is the standard not the null hypothesis and students are not being given the logical and statistical tools to evaluate for themselves the legitimacy of the conclusions with which they are presented.