The recent FTC action against the head of an academic journal highlights a problem in science. In this case climate science. For example, as the author points out, there is the large and growing literature about the misuse of statistics. And that is just scratching the surface. Doing science requires a high level of honor and the ability to objectively prove someone is wrong and for the party found to be wrong to admit it as such. That is a trait science and the Western world in general may no longer have resulting from the marriage of science and politics.