As for science being “ideological” or “non-ideological” - I'm a little old-fashioned and I take the view that it's neither here nor there. If what a scientist says is true, then it's true, and if what they say is wrong, then it's just wrong, whether it's ideologically motivated or not. Science & scientists, I suspect, are no more or less ideological than anything else. Certainly it would be silly to claim that science was somehow set apart from & above the rest of society, and immune to its influences. But science can also be true or false. Not that ideological influences on science shouldn't be discussed - but forgive me if I find the science itself more interesting.