The policy is perfectly sensible but, lets assume that it wasn't. If you spend decades saying the wolf doesn't exist and undermining and mocking the scientists

The policy is perfectly sensible but, lets assume that it wasn't. If you spend decades saying the wolf doesn't exist and undermining and mocking the scientists who cried wolf, long after sheep were getting ripped to shreds and left in bloody pieces for all to see, no one is going to come to you for wolf-fighting advice and techniques. Nor are they going to take your criticisms of their attempts to defend against the wolf seriously.