You know, of course, that Plato is the father of eugenics, recommending infanticide to maintain racial purity.
It would be interesting to do a study of the percentage of PhD German scientists who supported Hitler compared to say, the percentage of Lutherans. I don’t really know what the result would be, but considering the attempt to smear science, it would interesting.
Those in science and/or proclaim themselves to be scientists do more to damage and smear science than any of us ever could.