Science Follows Politics

I have talked a lot about technocracy here at the plague chronicle, but I realise I’ve not thought nearly hard enough about it.

There is an approving view of technocratic politics, which holds that it is good for politicians to “follow the science” in as many areas as possible. Because I doubt that there is anything like a unified Science that one could follow, and that our rulers would never be able to follow the directives of an oracular Science even if it existed, I find this view is superfic...