Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Rolling Stone the countercultural rag, in the finest tradition of an Orwellian day trip, today pronounces thusly:

"Climate of Denial
Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison?"

The question is since when do procurers of orgies and drugs have the temerity to claim that they are the spokesmen for truth and science? Truly and wretchedly, reprehensibly disgusting are they...