@nosat I would say this is far from true, it's difficult that politicians directly interfere with scientific research.
Big companies on the other side do that all the time.
It's not clear how bad this is for science, it is rare that lines of research get obstructed by them, rather they favor certain ones rather than others.
@nosat It's not only big pharma, science isn't just medicine.
You've got a lot of companies who have interest in moving public research in a certain direction, mainly because in this way they get people doing research about topics they care about basically for free.
@rastinza you are right, big pharma and the satanic pedo. cult is missing from the illustration