"But as Alston Chase put it, 'when the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.' That is the danger we now face. And that is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history. We must remember the history, and be certain that what we present to the world as knowledge is disinterested and honest." -Michael Crichton, appendix to State of Fear