Mutant 59: written by a scientist
Some scientists can read, some can write, some can do both of those, some can even do numbers and logic and other fact-based stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Pedler
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0670035/
And, as many others have noted, Mutant 59 was directly or indirectly based on Doomwatch, S1 Ep1: The Plastic Easters.
The Daily Mail and its anti-science friends are only a few decades late catching on to this plastic dependence. Maybe they're finally learning to read. It'd be a start.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
