Certain areas of science have become heavily  politicized, and they’re the ones that are apparently ‘under attack’, and which impel people to go marching for them.  Personally, I have no time for this.

It’s all about climate change (a key platform item for all leftwing politicians, since ‘action’ against climate change requires a great deal of government interference, which is to the left like candy to a baby),  and there’s the GMO element (pro-GMO, mostly rightwing, since it promotes profits, a key consideration for those supporting right-wing policies).  

In these ‘science under attack’ rants there's not much being said about astrophysics or geology or quantum physics is there - the really 'hard' science intellectually accessible to so few.