There’s a lot of craziness in the air these days flowing from the top down
https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/our-societys-top-brains-have-gone-mad-and-dysfunctional-politics-is-the-result/
Communism and Nazism started as intellectual movements; so did such fads as eugenics and lobotomies.
The Tuskegee Experiment wasn’t the product of racist Klansmen but of the curiosity of credentialed public-health experts.