A different framing of this is that politics is, more and more, intruding into science. Paul Romer: > Politics does not lead to a broadly shared consensus. It

A different framing of this is that politics is, more and more, intruding into science. Paul Romer: > Politics does not lead to a broadly shared consensus. It has to yield a decision whether or not a consensus prevails. As a result, political institutions create incentives for participants to exaggerate disagreements between factions. Words that are evocative and ambiguous better serve factional interests than words that are analytical and precise. > Science is a process that does lead to a broadly shared consensus. It is arguably the only social process that does. Consensus forms around theoretical and empirical statements that are true. In making these statements, a combination of words from natural language and tightly linked symbols from the formal language of mathematics encourages the use of words that are analytical and precise. from https://paulromer.net/mathiness/Mathiness.pdf https://paulromer.net/mathiness/Mathiness.pdf