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"He does what so many of his colleagues do, which is to equate science itself, with the institutions that purport to advance science. To question politicized scientists, then, is supposedly unscientific.

To illustrate my personal contact with science-bias, I refer to an email I sent on Feb 3, 2021, to NASA regarding a brief article it had posted at the Space dot com website. Here is the letter with punctuations slightly adjusted:

Space dot com has been a credible source of information, because it does not reveal political bias.

The story at, “Space Force has Biden's 'full support,' White House says,” … is a sad exception.

It was good coverage until it said

It shouldn't come as a huge surprise that Psaki didn't have a wealth of Space Force information and ideas immediately to hand yesterday. The Biden administration is dealing with a number of pressing issues as it gets up and running, especially the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, so space issues likely aren't a big priority at the moment.

Making wordy excuses for the press rep's lack of knowledge by citing "a number of pressing issues " is disingenuous.

ALL administrations have serious pressing issues initially. With Psaki, even supporters of the new administration have ridiculed Psaki's pronounced lack of preparedness, citing her frequent "circle back" phrase.

It would have been more forthright to simply say nothing at all about the press rep, or at most, simply saying, something like, Psaki didn't have the Space Force information at the time of the press conference.

That would have been unbiased, factual, and would not have sounded patronizing.

I hope that you are self-aware enough to recognize your own bias, and to keep it from tainting

your otherwise excellent coverage in the future. Obeisance does not become you.

• Robert Arvay

Since then, I have not seen another example of such blatant politicization on the NASA website.

Whether my email to them had anything to do with it, I will probably never know.

Censorship of actual science has been heavy-handed, both by Democrats and by their big-tech acolytes.

Epidemiologists, virologists and physicians who do not toe the party line regarding COVID have been intimidated and silenced. Science that cannot be openly questioned is not science, since the heart and soul of science is to scrutinize every claim from every angle. If we are to be told that we must follow the science, then scientists must explain to us the inductive reasoning that was applied to exclude members of Congress, and their staffs, from the COVID restrictions they imposed on the rest of us. If scientists are to decry those of us who doubt their word, then they must equally decry the policy of distributing unvaccinated, untested illegal aliens to every state, while denying entry to legal travelers.

To decry only the skeptics, while ignoring the egregious anti-science of many politicians, does nothing to engender trust in the institutions of science. It does the opposite.

Yes, Professor, mixing science with politics does indeed result only in politics. Thank you for being an example of that. "