My summer reading includes a number of easy-read popular science volumes, including a thoughful, factful and scholarly work called “Merchants of Doubt” co-written by Naomi Oreskes, famous for her study of the contrast between Climate Change Science and the Media representation of it, startling figures that appear in Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” :-
https://pandeliterary.com/authors/naomi-oreskes/
https://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/moving-by-degrees/bios/oreskes.html
One passage, early in the book, has highlighted for me that the mainstream Media have completely forgotten the lessons of yesteryear.