You can thank Darwin for that kind of stunt. He didn't eliminate but he did have helpers pad his research and peddled influence among those who made the final decision.
This is why my faith isn't in science. I mean, for millennia we believed spontaneous generation was a scientific law for crying out loud (and some still do to this very day but not all of them realize it).
I used to trust science but after the covid stuff I no longer do. They hid so much and now some honest people are reporting the problems. The scariest is that the virus is living in the testies and overies. It kinda tells us it is about population control. I never bought into the conspiracies but I kinda do now.