And a more eloquent defense of science I could not imagine. I can't pen such words.

Though there is another aspect to it untouched by there: science falling to ideology (which really is just another form of ignorance and fallacy, when taken to extremes). Lysenkoism set Russian agriculture and genetics back nearly a century when it was instituted, but Lysenko convinced Stalin it was the One True Science, and had most all the other geneticists executed. The result was mass famine.