Dear John and Friends. However, in the short and medium term this will put politics against science.
Science works on validated evidence, politics works on unvalidated votes.
So far, science prevailed over relegion, at least in university campuses, and so far politics and science have found ways to develop mutually beneficial strategies after that. Politics Vrs Science is a new domain as politics rarely goes openly against science, it appears, at least in developed countries. Comments are welcome.