The Corruptions of Science

That science can serve as a “front” for sinister interests and that science can play the whore are shocking statements, doubly so in this time of the apotheosis of Albert Einstein. Yet citizens of a liberal democracy, in which many important social decisions are made on the basis of “scientific” reports, ought to be aware of the extent to which those statements are true. Here are some examples.

In 1971, the noted ecologist Barry Commoner wrote: “No one has...