alt Hacker NewsIt wasn't the party that made the replication crisis.
Right now universities have all the trappings of science with none of the substance.
Do I particularly care than they are going to be bent to the ends of those in power?
Kind of.
The same way I'm a bit upset if someone pisses in the holy water at a church.
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You should care at least as much as if someone pisses in the cup you're drinking from, because regardless of the merit of the 'science' being produced in certain fields, the findings of bad studies are nonetheless breathlessly reported as objectively true Science, becoming "facts" that influence who your fellow less-discerning citizens vote for and influence how those voted in approach policy decisions. The state of scientific research is bad enough, but it can become much worse when actively applied to propagandistic ends (moreso than it already is).
The Party certainly isn't going to solve the replication crisis. It's just going to pressure researchers to publish a different set of unreplicable results.
Universities have produced medical breakthrough after medical breakthrough.
Peer review isn't perfect, but it has gotten us incredibly far, and it's way better than political appointees who don't believe that AIDS is caused by HIV making decisions based on culture war considerations.
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It also wasnt The Party who identified the replication crisis, and started the work of fixing it.
Science is a self correcting mechanism, monarchism is not.