Is the Anti-science Reaction New, According to David Friedberg?

On All-In, David Friedberg said anti-science talk is old. He had seen it aimed at climate research, and he had been inside the anti-GMO fight after selling his company to Monsanto. He went back to Copernicus and Galileo. Some institutions gain when people ignore what can be shown, but over time science finds the truth more often than fiction does. The cost is the damage meanwhile. Had he been president on February 1, after Wuhan, he would have started with testing. A PCR test finds active virus, so a positive result is someone to quarantine now. It misses the person who was sick weeks ago and recovered. The country, he said, still could not see who had already been exposed.