>>Operative word here is "play" if you are refering to scientific method and experimental science.
>>Just questioning things belongs into philosophical arenas... And as you have no control of the experimental setup you do not exercise experimental scientific method.
Apart from US politics, many scientific fields including Climate Change, astronomy, tectonics and large areas of medicine are observational, not experimental. So I'm not sure why/how I might refer to experimental science in context?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
