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* The existence of nonscientific motives does not tell us which side is right; only careful consideration of the evidence can do that.<ref> [http://www.reason.com/news/show/32245.html Full of Hot Air: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" - Reason Magazine]</ref>
In the English-speaking world, conservatives and liberals agree that the Galileo and Lamarck episodes were both examples of politicization. The church was wrong to suppress Galileo's arguments against the perfect spherical shape of the moon (he saw proof of mountains) or against the idea that all heavenly bodies revolve around the Earth (he discovered the [[Jovian satellites]]). The Soviet Union was wrong to enshrine [[Lamarckism]] as official evolutionary doctrine.
That is not science.
:Science is an enterprise which requires openness and questioning. When a scientific organization takes up politics and advocates for one side of a scientific issue, it declares the theoretical and scientific dialogue closed. It smothers science.<ref> [http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/narth/1995papers/johnson.html American Psychology: The Political Science]</ref>
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