"Dan" wrote:

If by "science" you mean the academy writ large, certainly you live in
a dream world if you think that ivory tower is free of bias.

No. By science I mean science; the modern, self correcting process of
empirical study that began with the birth of The Royal Society and has since
unlocked many of the great secrets of nature. Science goes where the evidence
takes it, and does not--cannot--consider who doesn't like what it finds.

As a conservative columnist put it

"Dragged forward by cold science, which doesn't care what we think or believe
or wish for, we are headed into some interesting times."