You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. Once science has become broadly accepted as an arbiter of truth, political action gro

You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. Once science has become broadly accepted as an arbiter of truth, political action groups of all kinds will become interested in controlling science. This can happen on a political topic of the day, like trans rights. It can happen with a business interest, like how the sugar industry in the 1970s used bribes to get science redirected at blaming fat instead of sugar. It can be from people trying to discredit science, as the fossil fuel industry has tried to discredit climate science. It really doesn't matter. The truths that science can uncover have a political impact. Those affected, will not simply sit silently by for that. They will attempt to act. And we who care about truth should expect and guard against their efforts. It does not matter whether the political manipulation is for or against current scientific results. Science itself must strive to remain independent, with truth as the north star, regardless of how inconvenient or convenient that truth is.