Is anyone else worried about the societal effect of AWG?

It should be a general mistrust in the institution of science, Dawai. Science is the search for truth. How can you mistrust that? You should recognize that scientists have motivations. If money is one of them, then money often drives results. Money favors those studies that money likes. What money likes, money gets, and that includes scientists. To paraphrase James Carvile's quote about Paula Jones, "it is what you get if you drag a hundred dollar bill across a colledge campus."