First, I'm honored to have a scientist in both training and profession respond to my article. Secondly, I mean no disrespect to your profession, I'm obviously scientifically curious and enjoy reading about new discoveries made each day.

To your point, I absolutely am over generalizing in this article. And on purpose. Even more so, the article title is absolutely outrageous. My intention being to draw attention to the situation. Just as in any field, there will be both good and bad actors, science is not exempt.

As a general population, we too often assume scientists draw conclusions that are above argument. Most people accept scientific findings, regardless if it is from a reputable or junk source, with the same regard as religious instruction from their religious leaders. Some of the bad actors in scientific community are taking advantage of this and it's quite concerning. We live in a new era where fake news is everywhere and scientific findings are bundled in with the rest of the fake news out there. I believe most scientists understand and recognize bad science when they see it, that's not my concern at all. It's the general public, and worse the various journalists who overblow or misstate findings, who don't have the wherewithal to make this recognition and provides the rationale for me having written this article.