I would be cautious of making group generalizations like that. If a couple idiots who call themselves physicists publish a terrible paper -- that doesn't indict all of psychics. Covid made every amateur virologist and wanna-be-scientist come out of the woodwork. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!

Why would a terrible paper by physicists indict all of psychics?

because of autocorrect

That's why I said "not all". But it was enough of them, and enough of them in positions of authority, that it damaged the entire field.