I understand the dynamic you're pointing to, but it's simply not something that's solvable from the institutional/scientific-community side. We cannot allow institutions to actually control media, nor can we allow science to "go private."
The responsibility, which you and I both should reaffirm, is that individuals need to better manage their own information ecosystem and diet!
Do you have another solution?
As for solutions? What about ramifications for any media that cannot backup what it says? What about people being held responsible for what they spread?
> As for solutions? What about ramifications for any media that cannot backup what it says? What about people being held responsible for what they spread?
I mean... effectively not possible in the US (First Amendment). Gnarly situation as the cost of producing bullshit plummets to zero, or goes negative since you can earn money from it, while the cost to find and publish truth continues to rise.
It has its warts, but the first amendment needs to be protected.