Hard sciences are not without politicisation either. Just look at this wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Physics https://en.w

Hard sciences are not without politicisation either. Just look at this wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Phys... There's definitely a trend of scientists from e.g. Russia claiming to have been the originators of ideas that others got prizes for. Academia in general tends to be very Western-centric and so these kinds of issues - and all the other problems with Western cultural hegemony (patriarchy, racism etc.) - are pervasive in all facets of it.