I think most scientists want to do it right, but the bureaucracies are more interested in the expected answers than in the right answers. I see three problems. One problem is the corruption of the leaders of the sciences which forces propaganda to be reported as science. Another is the willingness of rank and file scientists to accept the corruption. This is the same syndrome we have seen in police agencies, the press, politics, and education. Most people know better but accept corruption as the normal course of their lives. Society has become a cult, as Desmet describes very well in his excellent new book "The Psychology of Totalitarianism." Third, and most important, is the willingness of large portions of the non-scientist population to accept the corruption of their own future. Most are just unaware, having received no training in the sciences, nor in any form of rational, analytical thought, due to the failures of the education system. It's a vicious circle that produces increasingly bad outcomes until a critical tipping point appears that forces even the most complacent to rebel. That will resolve the corruptions, but likely will introduce new ones as we oscillate into new normals. Maybe rationality will prevail, and science will identify and correct their errors gracefully, and journalists, and cops, and social institutions at large. The important start for returning to rational society is for those who recognize the failures to become aggressive in pointing out those errors in thosearound us. Be judgemental. Make some of them angry -- it breaks their complacency. Make it clear their obsequious acceptance of fascism is unacceptable. It takes time, but its better than the likely alternatives.