"We own the science"

When anyone tells you that Google is great because it surfaces the best information thanks to the best algorithms, make sure to know they deliberately — no algorithm involved — AstroTurf the political positions of their partners first.

Here is Melissa Fleming from the U.N., letting you in on that little secret during a WEF talk:

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Does it not fill you with rage, to hear this woman proclaim "we own the science", so smugly and cavalierly?  In at least a very real sense, they do own the science — they own the pockets and souls of all the corrupt scientists happy to get government / NGO grants to study climate... so long as they tell the U.N. what they want to hear — "more intrusion into private lives is necessary!"

Ownership denotes the right to exclude. To "own the science" means exactly that: formal, systematic exclusion of perspectives and findings. What is a science that excludes new, alternative hypotheses? (Hint: it is not science.)

Where there's power, there's the potential for that power to be abused.  If the power in question is the power to brainwash people into a certain doomsday cult, you bet it will be abused.  And if there's money to be made, well, there will be no shortage of "science man" to buy.