[Aliantha]

It's very difficult to find a scientist who isn't biased one way or another. There are very few altruistic scientists out there. They all have their own beliefs and requirements for their studies, and in the end, most of them have to pay the bills one way or another anyway.

Science is no more black and white than any other field. There are many shades of grey.

My suggestion is that the reason science is coming under scrutiny is that every tom, dick or harry can get their hands on scientific research these days thanks to the internet, so everyone thinks they're smarter and more informed than ever before. While this may be true in some cases, in others, people simply do not have the basic skills to disseminate the information in front of them properly and come to wildly unfounded conclusions based on, yep, you guessed it. Their very own personal biases.