text: That statement belies a lack of understanding of what science is. Science is a rational, self critical, universally applicable and constantly refined and verified process that is all. 
  
  People have taken results/ conclusions and twisted them to their perverted ends, but it is not 'science' that has been misused. It is Charlatans and snake oil peddlers that have misused data and preyed upon humanity's tendency to be capricious and credulous....