Science Can’t Rule Culture Neutrally

Skinner argued society should be engineered by an objective scientific elite because science, unlike politics, isn’t biased. Hanson revisits this claim and notes that modern experience shows academia is itself value‑laden and incentive‑driven, undermining the premise that a 'scientific controller' can be trusted to centrally design culture. Culture governance must account for scientific institutions’ own biases and feedback loops. — This challenges technocratic dreams of 'rule by science' and pushes debates toward designing checks, incentives, and pluralism rather than handing culture to a supposedly neutral expert class.