Abstract
Although a great expansion of learned institutions and of professorial appointments has taken place during the last decades, the number of really productive individuals has only increased slightly, but the resulting damage has been small. Much worse has been the decomposition of scientific life, with different scientists arguing against each other when asked by politicians for their advice. Feyerabend's dictum that ‘anything goes’ is refuted and the political jungle of jargon is also attacked. The subject of ‘Science and Politics’ is dissected into questions and problems, their differences analysed and their different styles and time frames are discussed. Five simple conclusions of philosophical content are presented.
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