While in general we like to think that science is the search for truth and knowledge, science as practiced today doesn't really do that.
Funding will always be the death of science, especially as we progressed into needing billions to trillions of dollars to hit "breakthroughs."
Nobody is going to toss the money at these people just for the good of humanity, it always will come with a catch of some kind. Usually to progress their ideology or to justify something they already intend to do. Else they wouldn't be throwing money at it to begin with.
So even without needing it to be purely malicious (even if that's often the case) and purely pragmatic, science will always be beholden to its funding source. And the people with funding are usually Governments or Wealthy Elites, the two most corrupt sources of anything and the ones who will not take "no" or "we found the opposite to be true" as an answer.
Funding will always be the death of science, especially as we progressed into needing billions to trillions of dollars to hit "breakthroughs."
Nobody is going to toss the money at these people just for the good of humanity, it always will come with a catch of some kind. Usually to progress their ideology or to justify something they already intend to do. Else they wouldn't be throwing money at it to begin with.
So even without needing it to be purely malicious (even if that's often the case) and purely pragmatic, science will always be beholden to its funding source. And the people with funding are usually Governments or Wealthy Elites, the two most corrupt sources of anything and the ones who will not take "no" or "we found the opposite to be true" as an answer.