The need to feed the enterprise of science is killing scientific thought. Science deniers are the natural result of science's self-inflicted credibility problem. If you want to defend science, fix it. 

Efforts to fix the broken peer-review process:
http://retractionwatch.com/

How journals and sources manipulate the media:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-fda-manipulates-the-media/

How researchers manipulate statistics to get a more desirable result:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/...

The replication crisis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

John Oliver on the endless assault of "studies”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw