Science is about facts and about knowledge. Since when does Science depend on policy?

We have seen previous attempts to illegally interfere with the statutory duty of NASA, for example, to provide the quickest and fullest possible communication regarding Scientific and Technical Information, such as the observed fact of Climate Change / Global Warming.

The NASA Inspector General Report about Dubbya Appointee Illegal Interference with that Statutory Mandate is an education about how many different ways there are to describe Presidential Appointees as liars, obsurantist, mendacious, dissembling, ...

https://oig.nasa.gov/investigations/OI_STI_Summary.pdf

"officials in the NASA Headquarters Office of Public Affairs did, in fact, manage the release of information concerning climate change in a manner that reduced, marginalized, and mischaracterized the scientific information within the particular media over which that office had control"