One expert’s treatment by a congressman at a recent hearing highlights how men use insults to obscure the issues

…The sparring was emblematic of broader misogynistic undertones in attacks on women in the environmental movement, experts say. These attacks go as far back as the 1960s, when Rachel Carson, who exposed the dangers of the then-widely used pesticide DDT in her book "Silent Spring," was framed by her critics as "hysterically overemphatic" and depicted as a witch in a chemical industry magazine…
https://19thnews.org/2022/09/congressman-climate-lawyer-misogyny-insults/