So its not the science that's manipulable, it's data presenting the science to the public by sources of varying propriety and equally varying motives.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'