Science is supposed to be our candle in the dark — the method by which humanity resists the pull of superstition, ideology, and tyranny of opinion. It is the discipline that humbles itself before evidence and observation, accepting that truth is discovered, not decreed. But what happens when science is no longer guided by curiosity, skepticism, and the pursuit of truth — but by political necessity? What happens when “science” becomes a tool of policy, rather than policy being informed by science?

We have already seen the answer: when science becomes a servant of ideology, it ceases to be science at all. It becomes dogma.