Science is more than just a tool or procedure for generating data and building models, though. It's a humanistic tradition that says that humans can look at and

Science is more than just a tool or procedure for generating data and building models, though. It's a humanistic tradition that says that humans can look at and interpret the world to understand and manipulate it. If you have a government undermining the institutions that make that practice possible, it's certainly appropriate for scientists to speak out about it. If the US government cuts off funding of climate change research and bans scientists from releasing their findings, scientists can certainly speak, as scientists, and call out the administration doing so as anti-science.