Sobre as misturas entre ciência e política

"Pluto, Democracy and Science" de Nicholas Provenzo no Capitalism Magazine:

The appropriate time to teach about government — and thank God, so to speak, we do not live in a "democracy" — is civics class. Likewise, the time to teach science is in science class. A scientific congress is not a government and the government has no business attempting to dictate scientific consensus. You have not only confounded two disciplines (science and civics), but you have failed to teach a good lesson in either. Science — and I mean the process of finding evidence and logically evaluating it — is supposed to teach us about the universe; the consistency of the concepts (e.g., "planet") we form with reality is a fact not subject to majority vote. Government is the only social institution that can legally wield force. Studying this institution should make people aware that it is a blunt instrument suited and properly used ONLY to protect citizens from having their individual rights violated.