Originally Posted by
mcap
Science being a tyrant isn't what's largely happened, it's tyrant scientists that are more interested in grifting for funding than they are in the science. Same as journalists when they are demonized as a profession they need to be honest and look at themselves as a group about what level of responsibility they have for that perception. But nothing, ever, in a scientists life was ever a scientists fault, because they're a scientist. Engineers tend to have the same twisted pretzel logic about any possibility of fault.