Unfortunately, I think that some peoples' reaction to this scandal will be to stop listening to all research on lifting (at least in the short term).

in informing casual/general population exercise/diet regimens.

The shame is that I think there are other fitness people online who actually do write about serious science, and present it in a digestible and responsible way. (Greg Nuckols being probably the best example)

I think a lot of his advice was unscientific in subtle ways (i.e. generalising from narrow study results to overly-broad training prescriptions). The fact that he associated his brand so much with "science" did a lot of damage, and gave people the wrong impression of what role science should play