Its practitioners are no more innately virtuous than anyone else, and their work is no less vulnerable to error and misuse. The difference is that scientists have struggled to institutionalize a process that involves extensive observation, experimentation, and independent review that, in the long run, provides a firmer purchase on the world than intuition and political posturing.
科学绝非完美。科学实践者并不生而比任何人更高尚，他们的工作也不比其他工作更能免疫于错误和误用。区别在于科学家致力于将包含大量观察、实验和独立评估的过程制度化，以便在长期提供比直觉和政治姿态更可靠的决策。