What present scientific institute has gotten dumber over the years compared to their predecessors who were known as one of the best and smartest people in the world?

Heres a good example:

The Smithsonian institue

Regarded as one of the worlds highest authoritys in Science biology.

Successor: Rose Eveleth

Well, let’s talk size first. Tigers are heavier, weighing up to 800 pounds to the lion’s 550. But the two cats aren’t so different in size. Here, their profiles are superimposed [Source])http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tiger-vs-lionwho-would-win-83275452/?no-ist)

Despite all the accounts she uses comes from second hand sources not the originals which all say things completely different

Predecessor: Head animal keeper William H Black burne

The lion is the king of among beasts in other ways than in looks. I once put a big tiger in a cage with a lion, chaining the lion but giving him slack enough to stand up and turn around. It was a night parade and the red fire was burned on the top of my wagon and the animals became greatly excited. The tiger pounced on the lion but I stopped the battle with the stool upon which I had been setting. Later the fight was renewed, the lion knocking the tiger down five times. The lion. In my opinion, can whip anything that walks. Source

What is the difference from back then research and now days?

A.) Rose has never handled a lion or tiger in her life, Blackburne owned these animals.

That means its computer copy and paster vs Guy who basis it off of empirical evidence. Not to mention all her so called facts, or what we know of now which is Pseudo science, doesnt match the facts which are tangible

Kinda hard to take her word on a historical consensus when she majors in jack crap of any culture an posses any degrees of them, when all the records show the opposite:

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