Science, by contrast, is a cooperative not an oppositional venture. Of course, the history of science resounds with ferocious argument and the elaboration and destruction of rival theories. But when consensus is reached, science does not collapse, it advances. Another crucial difference is that politics aims to coerce people. It is concerned with the exercise of power.
Science has no such designs.
It seeks knowledge. It would be ludicrous to go to war to decide upon the truth or otherwise of the second law of thermodynamics. Mailroom Not for re-publication in any medium without the author's consent. Presented by The Virtual Church of the Blind Chihuahua .