It's not a zero sum game. You can and do have both anti-science attitude: the self-serving profit-increasing from the industrialists, and the self-aggrandizing

It's not a zero sum game. You can and do have both anti-science attitude: the self-serving profit-increasing from the industrialists, and the self-aggrandizing alienating from the alt-news consumers. And politicians will follow whatever pays them and votes for them - aka both of those.