Science has retardified itself.
This is something philosophy could actually have helped warn them against...but philosophy has done the same to itself.
In both cases, it's largely the result of these areas working with the left to further ideological capture.
First thing: what do you mean by Science is political?
Because the natural interpretation would be something in the vicinity of science is inherently political.
Which, of course, it is not.
Good science is apolitical--and some science is good science.
The drawing of the conclusion is left as an exercise for the reader.
The real problem is that the claim has no clear meaning. Does it mean that politics sometimes affects science? True...but it really can't mean that. It's implicitly universal. Science certainly affects politics...sometimes... Is that science being political? Or politics being sciencey? Or what?
The left loves to push the laughable claim that "everything is political."
Of course, however, almost nothing is political. The percentage of the universe that has anything at all of any importance at all to do with human political struggles and institutions is so near 0 that me might as well round to that. Humans have only even existed for a blink of an eye, in cosmic terms.
Of course it's always the left that pushes such absurd claims...because it wants and aims to politicize everything. And, when called on its bullshit, it defends it by claiming that everything is already political...so it's just a matter of which kind of political it will be...and, of course, the left's brand of political is allegedly (but not actually) preferable...
It's more or less at this point that the left starts confusing Everything is political with Anything might theoretically become fodder for political disagreement...which confusion is, yes, thermonuclearly retarded. But, having accreted around a core of bad Continental philosophy, pseudophilosophy, and literary theory, the left is nothing if not muddle-headed...
I should write something for real on this nonsense someday...
Oh and, of course: note that there is no reference at all to the left in the Lancet's editorial...despite the fact that the left has threatened to wreck science, off and on, since Lysenko...and it's probably never been closer to succeeding than it was during the "great awokening", perhaps peaking during the Biden administration. But who does get a personal shout-out as an enemy of science? Well, I'll leave that, too, as an exercise for the reader...
