The UKRI-Donelan furore is a wake-up call on the politicisation of science

Good article. You might also add something about how populism in politics is infecting scholarship. Populist politicians want to put their often redundant ideology and captive voters about law and science. Populist scholarship puts appropation in the academy and with the public or politicians above knowledge (ie by using ideology and social media to deflect peer review) and is increasingly undermining scientific findings.

"But a more troubling issue for us all should be..." Not so fast. Everyone losing here might be the best result, as I am not wealthy enough to watch as UKRI supports trashing the economy with "innovations that will get us to net zero". And what public outrage? Nobody cares except a few cat-botherers on Tw*tter.