Dear lord, I really hate how so much of problem framing in the world today is to pick on some rich tech related person. Worse, it is framed in a way that this is a unique to today problem.

I'm open to the idea that the scale of things can be worse. I'm less sure that is the case for stuff like this. We had plenty of seemingly bad science in the past, by the knowledge of today. From all evidence I know, nobody has a monopoly on causing bad science. Similarly, nobody has a monopoly on good science.