Actually, the allocation of money has nothing to do with the idea of science, but is rather a simple necessity brought on by, ironically, politics. That allocat

Actually, the allocation of money has nothing to do with the idea of science, but is rather a simple necessity brought on by, ironically, politics. That allocation process also has many of the same safe-guards you mention. The part of the metaphor that is completely incorrect, is that democracy is a truth finding system at all! You can not vote the law of gravity out of existence, for example. As a truth finding tool, democracy is only as strong as the education of its members, and even then, it provides no strict framework for judging quality or correctness of results. In that sense, democracy has little at all to do with science. It is merely a tool for managing and controlling human actions.