Hypocrites for Science
Very few people really care about “sound science” and even fewer would recognize it if it were to slap them in the face. Almost everyone, however, thinks that “sound science” (if it were every properly done) would back up whatever preexisting political biases they might have. For a walking embodiment of this phenomenon, see Kennedy, Robert F. Jr. He’s happy to (a) launch into an argument that the consensus of scientific opinion on climate change is x and how rejecting this consensus is akin to rejecting the birthright of all humanity, and then, in the very next breath (b) go off about the the millions of autistic kids who were given their horrible condition by the greed and irresponsibility of childhood vaccine manufacturers (about which the consensus of scientific opinion is that Kennedy is insane).