is science all political these days?

pretty much; it's politics all the way down, until you reach logic; then there is some hope that the oppressed minority of mathematicians who believe that art is dead and mathematics survived by pretending successfully to be a science will survive longer than the death of their beautiful art.

What makes you say that in this case?

"a little learning" [lifetime of listening to complaints about academia, and about half a decade of accumulating some of my own]