I always have my poles reversed on these types of stories.

People who study how to convince people are more trusted than people trained to talk in technical jargon about specific fields. Shocker there.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

because scientists are autistic and businesss men are sociopaths

Business leaders tell people what they want to hear, scientists typically bring bad news.

The corpo propaganda is working.

But capitalism isn't a problem

people in general hate feeling dumb, and are taught by sick society early that ignorance and stupidity are the same.

Being reminded they aren't the smart one leads to anger often.

This is difficult for me to believe, honestly.

At least here in the US, there is outright hostility to Big Business, and in particular, Big Tech. We are collectively very sick of the price gouging that's been rampant for the last five years and also the egregious treatment of local communities by companies trying to build data centers. We're reaching a point where they can't even gaslight us into supporting it by promising tax breaks to homeowners anymore.

Also, we're increasingly learning that the engagement of people who are anti-science is astroturfed, and that was put on display in a big way last week when Russian bots were silenced temporarily. There's still a chunk of people who are anti-science, and they happen to be very loud, but their opinions are amplified artificially, not representative of the whole.

Maybe it's different in the UK and Sweden, but I'm skeptical.

* study financed by the fascist businessmen

It's a simple matter if incentives. Businessmen need to understand enough of social reality to leverage it for profit. Scientists only need to understand the smallest most myopic slice of social reality to publish a paper on it to maintain their tenure track. While businesses have been successfully making money repeatedly from society for a few centuries, researchers have produced a reproducibility crisis where their findings are obviously specious and meet the much lower standard of convincing some gatekeepers to publish them.