I’d wager it’s the same type of people as it was in the 1970’s when oil companies knew about climate change and were denying it as well as cigarette companies knew about the links between their products and various cancers and were also denying it.

In short: People willing to sell out the future for their own gain now.

They’re no different than drug pushers on the street who don’t care who overdoses on their drugs as long as they get their bag.

They’ve helpfully characterized “the five principal forces of antiscience “ into alliterative groups: (1) plutocrats and their political action committees, (2) petrostates and their politicians and polluters, (3) fake and venal professionals—physicians and professors, (4) propagandists, especially those with podcasts, and (5) the press. The general tactic is that (1) and (2) hire (3) to generate deceitful and inflammatory talking points, which are then disseminated by all-too-willing members of (4) and (5).