I mean, is it political when you write a paper that concludes that vaccines are effective or that fish die when streams are polluted? The answer seems to have

I mean, is it political when you write a paper that concludes that vaccines are effective or that fish die when streams are polluted? The answer seems to have become "yes", so this is a rhetorical question, but ideally _information_ would be apolitical. We also see the current administration politicizing things like the federal reserve, which has tried VERY hard to be apolitical.