President Eisenhower warned about this in his farewell address.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
You always hear of Eisenhower’s warnings about the military industrial complex but they leave the part you just quoted off. Interesting.
President Eisenhower was a bit of a prophet. Here he describes the Global Warming science fraud that has tainted politics the world over.
Anthropomorphic Global Warming science fraud was brought to us by government funded science. A do loop of money-science-politics-money that is destroying industry, capitalism and liberty.