Science is highly politicized still. It's part of why I stopped doing that kind of work. Everything through the grant applications, working with different indu

Science is highly politicized still. It's part of why I stopped doing that kind of work. Everything through the grant applications, working with different industries and government groups, presenting our results. Everything ended up being political. Our data ended up being locked behind a paid government database against the approved plan in our grant application. This came shortly, coincidentally after we ended up discovering an endangered species in an area they hadn't been found before near an active mine site. I also seen first hand as a wetland restoration project was carried out for absolutely no reason after water samples in a lake pointed to the town golf course being the problem. Sampling was immediately stopped, there was no more talk of the golf course and a project was approved to mitigate lake pollution by building a wetland on the opposite side of the lake away from the golf course. Tens of thousands of dollars were wasted on this project. The lake's just as polluted as ever. But the town council just couldn't not have the greenest, green on their golf course. The whole actual issue was fertilizer run off from the course and it was totally ignored.