I wouldn't call her a charlatan, but I would call many people on the "other side" that. Wading through BS is practically a full-time job and she's very good at

I wouldn't call her a charlatan, but I would call many people on the "other side" that. Wading through BS is practically a full-time job and she's very good at it. If "low morale" is really the bottleneck then we aren't getting any science done anyway. And as an aside, I don't believe in group / peer based "science". There's a few geniuses (often not credited) that define the entire thing while everyone else seems to practically be in marketing by comparison. Science can be a group institution, but educational institutes are far from it. Criticism and disbelief are the bedrock of Science, and calling people that don't flock to still-unproven claims "science deniers" is very dystopian. There's also entire groups of phenomena that "hard" / popular science conveniently ignores. They all fall under Science by definition, but not under science-the-religion.