It's the end-game of authoritarianism. If they were only ignoring actual doctors and actual science that would be one thing. If they were only openly pretending the companies that have been fined over and over for lying and lying are somehow doing good honest corporate-science, and if they were only openly pretending that the CDC and FDA are not as corrupt as they obviously are, that would be one other thing. But they are exerting their power over people and using all their obvious collusion with corrupt drug companies and corrupt regulatory agencies as the flimsiest of excuses to do it. It's about how much disdain they have for those they rule over.