This is especially prevalent when working in places like Seattle and SF. People ostracizing their coworkers because of wrongthink.
MDS like TDS is real. It's extremely toxic and it needs to stop. People's political beliefs are their own and connecting that to work is a recipe for disaster.
Musk isn't just some guy near your cubicle complaining about Mexican cooks.
"Metastable deexcitation spectroscopy (MDS) and thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS)"
I really don't know what you are talking about.
Derangement Syndrome
Is what the acronyms refer to. Its a meme for the obsession around them specifically.
My two cents is that there are other billionaires doing significantly more harm than those two. They just keep quiet or own news media platforms.
See if you can try and steelman the argument as to why people care about the political opinions and actions of the world's richest man.
People care because he has power and money, which he uses to shape the world in alignment with those political opinions.
The same is true of anyone else with power - Xi, Putin, Gates, Thiel, Zuck, and the countless others with influence over business and government. A lot of money is spent to analyze and alter their political opinions.
What's hard for me to understand is why this isn't plainly obvious to you.