A somewhat extreme example: does it matter what Heidegger has said about a certain topic for any discussion? Or Žižek, for that matter.
People who don't take philosophy very seriously still engage in those topics. They just ignore that the topics have a history of being discussed seriously and often put forth their own unexamined assumptions. Scientists aren't immune to this.
Žižek said some faintly reasonable things during his pandemic period, and semi-recently published an okay introduction to Hegel in the context of contemporary life.
Also the man is very hot when he takes his shirt off.
So they re-hash the same arguments with an equal lack of data and come to the same conclusions with equally dubious applications.
It’s not so bad when it’s just randos posting in internet forums, but now we’re seeing people with real influence leaping from unfounded premises to untestable conclusions with unswerving confidence.