>>Unfortunately, most of today's science is prostituted. Everything is relativized, there's no firm truth, anything can be bought. Research is more often ordered than orderly. If majority of people don't trust them, it's because they have betrayed the trust hundred times before.
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>Agreed. You can sum up this issues and all similar as a combination of:
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>Political agendas + Corporate agendas + Religious agendas + Epistemic arrogance + Ignorance
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>But I'm not sure it's ever been different, just different issues - same players.

For science, I guess there was a happy period somewhere between the inquisition and XX century, when the universities were truly independent, the scientists were respected and the research was still cheap enough that it could be done with what money universities had, or soloists. Then the science became too important for warfare, profits, politics.