> It is amazing to me that the same people that dismiss "tobacco" or "soda industry" science/scientists have no problem accepting "government" science at face value.

When a scientist working at a lab in a tobacco company gets a result that puts tobacco in a bad light, the result likely won't get published.

When a scientist working at an academic lab gets government funding, and gets a result the government doesn't like, the result likely will get published.

That's a huge difference.