Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.
Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.
The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.
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