Even funnier is that their claim is flat out wrong, based on the study linked in the article.
Claim: For example, a notable study on climate change examined thousands of scientific papers on the topic, and found that approximately 97% of them support the consensus position that humans are causing climate change.
Relevant text from the study: We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.
Fact: ~32.6% of the 11,944 peer-reviewed climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'peer-reviewed scientific literature endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.
This is one of my favorite memes.
And yes, I realize if we were to contact all of these folks who didn't realize their studies would become fodder for propagandists, many of them would likely change their stance in support of the "consensus" (but not actually, based on this study), but that's no excuse for literally lying. And people genuinely wonder why there is a distrust of media and science.