I can't believe the problem has anything at all to do with specific individuals in science when the clear elephant in the room is that an entire American political party decided decades ago that facts and reality were biased against them and the only "solution" was to treat reality and facts as the enemy, choose anti-intellectualism as a core party platform/tenet, and to keep votes that they needed to keep at least half of America consistently playing a conspiracy-theory-laced alternate reality game of utter brinksmanship and terrifying levels of distrust and paranoia versus actual reality.