Doing Good Science Is a Near Occasion of Sin for Doing Bad Science

The best I can do is to think of this as a PR argument. It looks bad to be treating these kinds of questions as live issues. The either-mectinist slogan is, do your own research. Kavanaugh's apparent slogan is, even if you get it right, having tried it at all makes you impure. If there's some argument I know nothing about, pro vs anti-scub perhaps?