Science (n.) is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.
Science (n.) can only answer very simple questions; once things get complicated, you guess — and on human nature it has nothing to say.
Science (n.) is not taught but learned as a craft, by apprenticeship, with the aim of doing creative work and challenging everything.
Science (n.) cannot be done under ideological constraints, so good universities refuse to let funders steer it — for their own sake.
Science (n.) is the drunk looking for his key under the streetlight: you search where the light is, because that is all you can do.
Science (n.) lends its good name to manipulation by a simple chain: science is sober and good, science studies only behavior, so controlling behavior is sober and good, and freedom and popular will are mystical notions.
Science (n.) loses automatically, for a large share of Americans, whenever it disagrees with the Bible.