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Originally Posted by Uplift  Think... if the space race ends, which it has been in danger of doing, NASA's funding dries up. |
Sure. But that doesn't cancel out the results of all the scientific experiments they conducted.
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Originally Posted by Uplift Science's history, acceptance, and success has ways been subject to those in power and funding, and it's usefulness to those in power, or to those funding the experiments. |
Of course. That's why so much time, money and manpower goes into cosmetics research rather than cancer research. People with power will always have significant control over a society's focus but that's not particularly to science. When it's right, it tends to find its way out, too - Gallileo may have been killed for his argument that the Earth moves around the sun, but the evidence supported him and now everyone knows it.
Sadly, information, be it scientific knowledge or common sense is susceptable to spin, misinterpretation and censorship.
You seem to believe that common sense is opposed to science, but they work in tandem. Common sense is what you have experienced and what you know to be true. Science is a way of bringing what you suspect to be true into your experience so you can test it and move it into the 'known to be true' category if appropriate.