Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
History is riddled with examples of political misadventures with science.
Perhaps the most famous of these occurred during the 1930s in Soviet Russia. Stalin's personal friend Lysenko had his own theories about evolution and genetics, and attempted to implement those theories all over the land. Starvation resulted as agricultural cooperatives were forced to plant to his specifications. Lysenko was executed, but today's fish managers are promoted. The annals of federal government misadventures in applied science should make anyone a skeptic about the likely success of big government programs.