Somewhat tangential, but I feel like a neat children's story could be written in a similar vein as "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" but replace Christmas with "

Somewhat tangential, but I feel like a neat children's story could be written in a similar vein as "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" but replace Christmas with "Science", and the various things stolen being scientific implements, demolishing peer-reviewed journal institutions, deleting research data/past knowledge etc.