The issue focused on the research study of science studies. Many scientists have long thought that researchers who did scientific research were just brainwashed. Science fiction author William Gibson has even written a sci-fi novel about how science studies are controlled by religion.

It's all made more complicated because science studies seem to be still associated with religion. Scientific studies are often given research funding, and research studies by scientists from religious backgrounds are always looked at as somehow being biased. Scientists can't talk about their research without getting criticism