Just in case you have not seen it yet, Bee of Backreaction blog has posted an interesting trio of posts well worth reading (each in the series, IMHO, better than the previous): Science and Democracy, part I, part II and part IIi. They are a little physics-centric (especially part I), but if you squint just right, you can easily translate it into any scientific field you are ineterested in. Join in the commenting over there.
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Hi,
thanks for the link! Yes, for obvious reasons I mostly write about theoretical physics. But I'd be very interested to hear experiences from other fields. Best,
B.