The Press Club event is about as relevant to anti-Science as Cheez Whiz.

Positing Jewish space lasers isn't whist-blowing or journalism, nor is recommending ivermectin or drinking bleach to cure Covid. The nearly 1/3 of Americans who don't think fossil fuel emissions cause climate change (https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-march-2021/)? Same. And on and on.