THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE

Two years after the outbreak of COVID-19, many are now noting with alarm that the nation’s top scientists have used their positions in the federal government to stifle debate about the origins of the virus and how best to respond to it.

But Rafi Eis writes that President Dwight Eisenhower “foresaw” the rise of scientists like Anthony Fauci. In his Farewell Address, Eisenhower warned of the “danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”

These “task forces of scientists,” he said, could lead to the “domination of the nation’s scholars.”

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