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 When science becomes politicized it ceases to be science. 
 Real Science (tm)
Conjunctures, theories, experimentation, criticism.  
 True science is a lonely pursuit. Requiring "peer review" is a corruption. 
 So, you don't trust the science? 
 I don’t trust political agendas 
 You should devolop an experiment to test that hypothesis. 
 Basic incentives make this pretty clear, imo. You can’t produce controlled experiments for social systems however, yet another way empirical “science” used by politics is a farce. This is the whole problem with mainstream economics actually. 
 And since science has been politizised since the 70s at least, we have no science.

- Why 75% of the population is overweight?
- We don't know 
 Science is also a form of faith.  Faith in the wrong place,  but faith none the less 
 Redundant. Faith != belief. 
Faith = knowledge * effort