..last sentence: "All stakeholders, in and outside the global scientific community, must develop and enforce policies that ensure transparency and accountabilit

..last sentence: "All stakeholders, in and outside the global scientific community, must develop and enforce policies that ensure transparency and accountability in science-based decision making" As someone who is part of a scientific machinery designing and sending space missions to their targets I cannot but chuckle at the "ivory tower" naivete, pretentious and self-righteous attitude which encapsulates such framing of a conclusion. I reject it and the assumption on which it rests. This piece I consider as a vulgar urge for power by the institution supporting this. Science rests and must operate in a totally different framework than this. Academics who would identify with attitudes as expressed in the last sentence (which I know is the majority) are the very problem they pretend to solve. As long as the governments make use of these "useful-idiots" for their ends, the problem as conceived in the article will get only worse to the point that science would become scientism and synonym for ridiculous.