Scientific institutions may not take the risk of lending their resources for such “moonshots” due to lack of funding. What we should do is raise the amount of funds for scientific research. The main reason why anti-scientific or mythological things attract people is that they are presented in a more attractive and understandable way. I think many scientific communities lack that. Large scale science communities should spend some time to attract the general public towards their works.

For an example imagine collecting funds from people all over the world for a project like the LHC at the first place. Who will want to spend their money to smash electrons or protons that would help scientists confirm the existence of Higgs Boson, which makes no sense to them. Instead of that what if the researchers educate the younger generation about the project and introduce some citizen science projects or workshops for them. Their parents will spend some amount on that, won’t they?

Video game creators, movie creators, and those who promote anti-science ideas earn all their money from the general public. So why don’t the science communities too get the help from the general public. We have a population of 7.8 billion. A single dollar from half of that will add to a few billion dollars.