alt Hacker News> We are about to enter a new era, however, where funding for grants can be axed while the research is in flight if the administration decides that they don't like what's being researched
if you care about science not being political, dont use political means to obtain your science. simple as. youre just trying to have your cake and eat it too.
Everything is politics. Science will never and can never be apolitical because it says things which one political party or another will either like or hate. But further, very wealthy and powerful people have a vested interest in making sure people don't trust inconvenient truths.
Climate change is the poster child for this. We predicted the weather problems and patterns of today when I was a child. But because that truth was inconvenient to the fossil fuel industry, they decided to spend ungodly amounts of money buying conservative politicians and broadcasters to lie about what the science said. And here's the thing, that worked. Their politics overrode good science and science based policy.