Alex WellersteinVerified account

No, it's that some people realize that Science is a method of inquiry whose entire purpose is to ascertain properties of the world independent of the biases (political or otherwise) of the people doing the science.https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1017770859287728128 …

That is not in any way incompatible with what I've written. I am curious that you think it is, though. The scientists doing the inquiry still work in the same context as the rest of the world, and — whether they like it or not — that makes the whole thing part of that world.

Fields like quantum mechanics and cosmology — to just use your example — are hardly exempt from this. Scratch only a little bit into their history, and you'll find people pursuing theories for political reasons (sometimes explicitly as political metaphors, such as Bohm's work),

and you'll find people who try to oppose theories they don't like (including but not limited to scientists) for political reasons. *By itself* this should tell you there is some political import are the core of the work.