In addition to the dangers of the military industrial complex, an equally important warning from Ike about scientists like Fauci in control
“Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades….
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”