Good Science Always Has Political Ramifications (Scientific American)

[MisterP]

1. this fails to take into account post-1950 histories of science showing that, no,

science is quite strongly bound to power structures and is about as authority-challenging as politics; this article seems to rely on 19th-century stereotypes of the interaction between science and authority (e.g., since the 17th century could detect no stellar parallax, the Copernician system was no better than the Tychonian)

also I might add more revisionist histories that show the notion of "challenge everything" is often construed a bourgeois ideology that can blind as much as it reveals