I've seen all this before. Medical doctors wearing their white smock coats, flaunting their credentials from the advertising pages of a magazine or a TV commercial and saying things like: "I smoke Chesterfields not just because they relax me but they're smooth."
Back then, the corporate theme was "the science isn't settled - we need more study." Now, they just resort to character assassination.
The leak was bad. Then came the death threats
We've gone from "the science isn't settled" to "the science can't be trusted." The United States once prospered from it's science and technology. Is it a coincidence that we're having this paradigm shift as the US declines into third world debtor nation status? I don't think so.