If you claim to be a scientist, then it needs to be scientific. Or else you’re a charlatan and need to be called out. If you’re claiming things that go against

If you claim to be a scientist, then it needs to be scientific. Or else you’re a charlatan and need to be called out. If you’re claiming things that go against the scientific understanding, it needs to be called out too. Whether people follow the scientist or not, it’s another problem. Not that it really matters since obviously everyone involved in this is much more interested in the money they are making than in stopping to lie to their readers.