And, following the similar pattern of “accusation in a mirror”, is the exact same thing they accused scientists of doing during the previous administration.
Which (conveniently) both justifies aggressively “fighting back” against the fictitious conspiracy and waters down any criticism as a “both sides” partisanship thing that can be cynically dismissed as business as usual in DC instead of a seismic shift in federal scientific policy to conform to arbitrary political mandates.
