If anything, this simply lets regular people peek behind the curtain - it's mostly politics all the way down.

Science is a minor concern within a sphere of human influence.

When mathematicians of all people, reject prizes for making undeniable progress in their field [0], you can only imagine what happens in all the other fields that are inextricably tied to politics (economics anyone?)

Here's a depressing quote from Perelman's wiki: "It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman#:~:text=On%20....