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What action, with the objective of reducing the politicization of science, could be taken that could be construed as "non-political?"

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One that does not serve the interests of any one political faction.

In that case it is impossible to do Climate Change, science, no? It serves the interest of the Democratic "agenda," as a side effect.

That can be construed as political but also as non-political.

There are many ways around global warming, of which current Democrat policy is just one. Republicans are being silly by not proposing alternative approaches to this problem, agreed, but they absolutely can.

More specifically, to the republican party, climate change does not exist. Therefore, any climate change research is politically anti-republican (why would you research something that doesn't even exist?)

In the words of the leader of the republican party: "Climate Change is a Chinese hoax."

This isn't the fault of scientists in any way, shape, or form. This is a direct result of society, for some reason, organizing its political parties along "pro-intellectualism" vs "anti-intellectualism" lines. How can scientists fight back against this without being political? Should they just "deal with it?"

Conducting scientific experiments and publishing their results absent government funding.

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