Really reminds me of the Russia leadership portrayals in Chernobyl.

It's basically Lysenkoism

And, following the similar pattern of “accusation in a mirror”, is the exact same thing they accused scientists of doing during the previous administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror?wprov=s...

Which (conveniently) both justifies aggressively “fighting back” against the fictitious conspiracy and waters down any criticism as a “both sides” partisanship thing that can be cynically dismissed as business as usual in DC instead of a seismic shift in federal scientific policy to conform to arbitrary political mandates.

That’s exactly what it is.