I do not think mixing up the practice of science with how ideas and policys are being spread is productive. We are beings who care a lot about what other people

I do not think mixing up the practice of science with how ideas and policys are being spread is productive. We are beings who care a lot about what other people do and about our own turf, that will have a greater effect on science even if we get perfect reproducible results. Over all I think we make progress, even if it's needs to be backwards at times.