Science needs to be rescued from the political ideologues

Until yesterday (historically), it was accepted in science that there is no such thing as unquestionable consensus.
Indeed, that the concept of consensus or ‘settled science’ is lazy; unimaginative; restrictive; dangerous.
Any agreement was, at best, what we think we know at the moment.
But that it was unquestionable, either scientifically or morally, would not have been a mainstream view; indeed would have been vehemently resisted by the majority.
We mustn't stifle learning by restricting inquiry, was the majority view.
Judgments about the efficacy and/or desirability of ideas must come after they have been investigated, not before.

Unquestionable scientific consensus equals complacency & laziness at best; and, as anyone who's been awake in recent years has realised, serious error and tyranny at worst.

Consider all the knowledge and discoveries that wouldn’t exist if, for example, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Darwin, let alone engineers and medical scientists, had just shrugged their shoulders and gone along with the prevailing mainstream view of their time.
Forget life-saving blood transfusions, pass me the biggest leech you can find and cross your fingers.

Science, in its pure and proper sense, is about constant questioning, hypothesising and testing to form theories that appear to work, but that are still subject to further questioning, hypothesising, testing etc.
And this has worked well because, until recently, science wasn’t conducted based on the pre-formed answers required by those funding the research, or the personal political agendas of the scientists or those on the Boards of the companies they work for.

Politicised science should be anathema, not only to scientists but to the rest of us who depend so much upon what science does for us.

But if the blatant politicisation we see of subjects in the Arts, Humanities and soft-sciences (sociology; psychology) is allowed to bleed into the hard sciences, the errors and indeed deliberate misusing of science will increase, bringing misery to the majority of humanity before very long.