My problem today with “Science” is that today it often isn’t about science, it is too often about funding and an agenda.
It is not a new problem, I was first aware of it in the early 1980’s.
Now science is often being used to trick people into supporting an agenda, that if they knew their goal you would never support. Trickery.
I’m 75. Have known a lot of “real scientists”. I lived in NM for about 14 years, many of my Ham op friends worked at WSMR, Rat Scat, Kirtland AFB, Holloman AFB, Sandia Labs, Fort Huachuca.
I’m not an engineer. I have held a ham radio license since 1976 (Advanced then, Extra since 1985) and a GROL Commercial license that I got in 2000. I have taught both amateur and commercial (for TSTC) license classes. I ran a Navy/Marine Corp MARS station out of my home for 19 years.
My father-in-law was an electrical engineer. He was an intelligence officer in the 82nd Airborne. He worked at Pantex Plant for 40 years. 7 of those he was one of the division managers.
My dad’s grandfather was an inventor, he patented a washing machine, sold the patent and bought land with it. After that he moved to this county which was cut up in 1885. He bought tracks of land and sold them. We still own/operate farms here.
Now, I never made my living in a scientific field. But I built my first PC in 1982. Have long history of being involved in one of a kind radio projects. Things you could not buy, they were not available to buy only available by building. I worked in the wholesale hardware distribution industry for almost 40 years. All that time I had radio’s sprouting from my dashboard. Some long before cell phones, long before the internet. 3 times in my life I interviewed for a job that I could have had, but at the very end they wanted me to sign and intellectual property contract; 3 times I told them no. My ideas are mine. Period.
In the 1980’s there was a “science” magazine that I subscribed to called Science 80. In the beginning I loved it. Later I became disillusioned, it turned into a promoter of leftist agenda. I left them in disgust.
I know the difference between Fau Science and Science, and dearly love good applied technology. I especially like/respect simple clean design. Right not it is being used for the wrong reasons and we are dying in complexity. Needless complexity.
My Dad was a radar specialist in the Pacific in WW2.
In the early 1950s, he built a short wave receiver for his kids, and I can remember listening to it late at night, at very low volume, so my older brother would not wake up and yell at me.