I can sense the sadness for the current state of affairs in the scientific community. I feel it also. Personally, I don’t have a lot of time for emotional issues and have felt more at home dealing with the cold hard facts, as usually exhibited by the scientific community. But starting about 20-30 years ago it really started to change, most notably was in the scientific publications.
Very sad.
My Dad’s field (nuclear physics/chemical engineering) was less affected, I think. He was dismayed at what he saw happening in other fields, as was I. He retired in the mid-90s but continued doing consulting and writing papers. So maybe it has gone downhill in his field, too, since then.
Back in the mid-80s, I ran into a top NASA scientist, very nice Christian man, who was grateful to me for helping his son when he was injured in an accident not involving me (fell out of a tree). The Global Warming nonsense was just starting up. I was already skeptical then, and so was my Dad, so I asked his opinion about it as it was a thing at NASA at the time. He asked me not to tell anyone, but ... well you can guess what he said. So it was already political even then.
Some of the whacky stuff trying to pass itself off as “science” that gets posted on FR lately and eagerly swallowed whole leaves me shaking my head, I must say. Can’t anybody even do math anymore? I get distrusting the scientific establishment, but that does not mean every crackpot claim based on dodgy “science” and basic math errors is automatically right, either.