Rigor Mortis gives a lot of ammunition to anti-vaxxers, climate change "deniers", flat-earthers, and other "conspiracy theorists" who are skeptical of the "settled science" preached about by the makeup-embellished talking heads on the mainstream media. The firehose of federal funding corrupts the inquisitive minds of scientists and undermines institutions' commitment to the truth. If I tried to design a system to encourage conspiracy, coverup, collusion, and demands for dogmatic consensus I couldn't have done better.