The GQP has weaponized the conspiracy cults and anti-vax alt-med industry who call facts "scientism."
What did you expect?
Fringe nutters like anti-vaxxers and flat earthers used to be equally distributed between the right and left. The right has opened it's arms and mainstreamed their batshit, making virtually ALL of the nutters run over to their side.
It's at the core of the online deplatforming and censorship debate being fostered by all the covidiots (and racists) as censorship of political speech.
No, Karen, your political views aren't being censored. Your posts containing blatant medical misinformation and racism are.