Today, the charge of “global warming denial” is a quasi-religious attack on any “unwarranted” doubt about the scientific “consensus” on the rate and extent of supposedly anthropomorphic climate change. The Warming Faith is will combat any heresy, including revelations of collusion to manipulate warming data, destruction of contrary data, organized resistance to disclosure, and private admissions of flaws in public claims.
The politicization of climate science is minor league, however. Never forget what the big leagues looked like. Remember the accomplishments of the “scientific” totalitarian regimes of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.

The manipulation of science for political gain is real. Scientists, trained in universities made ideologically (read quasi-religiously) pure, are dangerous. Autocratic technocracy can rise anywhere the free exercise of alternative faith is prohibited.