Absolutely. It's very dishonest. Of course, it must be hard when you fervently believe something and have to come up against the establishment stonewall:

"Mainstream science is right."
"But but ..."
"MAINSTREAM SCIENCE IS RIGHT!"
"*sigh*"

To riff on Voltaire: "I disagree with what they have to say, but I can sympathise with their desire to be heard."

I wonder whether the tank-thinkers over at the Discovery Institute imagine, in their sillier moments, that they're terribly clever.