I'm not ignoring the politics, but science does have an obviously large part to play when it comes to teaching science, irrespective of the politics. Also, to

I'm not ignoring the politics, but science does have an obviously large part to play when it comes to teaching science, irrespective of the politics. Also, to insist on evolution and climate science to be taught in a way that practitioners in those disciplines would at least recognise, is not pretending to be above politics, it is trying to meet the politics head on.