The problem with corruption of science is not Power holding a gun to Science’s head and saying “make more”, it’s Power holding a gun to Science’s head and saying “declare my claims to be true”.
With the former, presumably Power wants the new gun to actually work and doesn’t care how it works, thus satisfying Power’s requested has the positive externality of increasing human knowledge. On the other hand, the latter has the consequence of polluting the human knowledge pool with falsehoods and polluting epistemology with the anti-epistemology used to justify said claims.
Well using the term “refugee” here is misleading. Note that 75% of the refugees are men. So either they feel that the places they’re leaving are safe for women and children, or their main motivation isn’t escaping danger.
Well the strong walls are doing a remarkably good job of keeping them out of the gulf states.