Science Is Often Merely Politics in Another Form

An interesting column in Nature acknowledges the power nexus between "science" and the political establishment. From "The Elephant in the Room We Can't Ignore," by Colin Macilwain:

The playwright Bertolt Brecht had a good line on expertise. In his plays, doctors, lawyers and other 'experts' are generally portrayed in threes. They squabble haplessly among themselves, each manoeuvring into the position that most elevates themselves in the eyes of their aristocratic paymaster.

And that, sadly,...