He means people who supported Trump. It’s not a very accurate description of them, but he has a point otherwise.

You're commenting under an article about politics, not about diabetes research.

Right, science, while not perfect (being a human endeavor), is our best mechanism for getting closer to the truth. Sure, fraud happens (occasionally). Not all "results" are a step forward. But the system is inherently self correcting. The problem is the politicization of science funding when scientific results don't fit into a dogma driven view of the world.

Then why now did they get the momentum? Why not the last 75 years? What has changed.. where is the falsifyability and prediction power in that story? There has to be better social science out there beyond "The inevitable victorymarch to a startrek future progressed nicely when suddenly facism returned".. that just sounds like someone who lost the plot completely and is in open denial about a species maybe to disabled to wield any future advances safely, without a period of realistic reflection first.