Politics, science and the distinction

The June 4 "Your Views" headline "Avoid politics disguised as science" reminded me of a Moon Mullins comic strip of half a century ago. It was the era of the familiar phrase "The man in the moon" becoming "A man on the moon." The space-race was on.

The setting of that now extinct comic strip was a shady boarding house of lovable, financially challenged characters. Moon, as in moonshine, was there every day while others came and went.

In the strip that I remember, Moon asks the "Professor" (who has seen better days), "What do you think about politics and science? To which the professor asks two questions back: "Do you mean the science of politics, or the politics of science?"

I thank and admire Ms. Flanagan, the writer of the above-mentioned letter. My only addition is: Where does the money to pay the scientists come from and for whose benefit?

Paul Tait

Mount Prospect