Maybe the freedom to talk about it with relatively little chance of getting shot, beaten to death, fired, disowned, arrested, committed, and so forth, is giving us a true picture of the percentage of society that's not Father Knows Best.
I do, in the sense that it's mildly amusing. Kinda like a real-life (well, as real as an internet chat board gets) Archie Bunker. Profoundly ignorant, and so insecure he needs to lash out at gentle corrections of his ignorance.
Do you mean ordinarily, or in the real world? In the real world, the answer is "either or both." In extreme circumstances, it's the state, cuz the state got the gunz.
To these types, "discovered" means "written up in a journal, exploited to make money, and/or the subject of litigation." As you say, it has probably been "discovered" repeatedly over the last 12,000 years or so.
And one can't condemn the Israeli government for terrorism and fail to condemn Hamas for the same.
Call it bothsidesism if you wish. Declaring one side evil, and not the other, is mere hypocrisy.