Think of the COVID-19 bat story as an example. They said that they used the scientific method to prove that COVID-19 could not have been a bioweapon and this was repeated by the MSM throughout the world and scientists failed en mass to recognize that this determination was, in fact, not made using the scientific method. In fact it was just one group of scientist's completely uneducated and (provenly) ignorant assessment.
The jury is still out on this one. I'm not sure we will ever have a conclusive answer. The only thing weaponized so far is all the bullshit rhetoric posing for real answers.