Oiling the Wheels

Among the more fundamental bedrocks of that moral tower which lifts the master race so effortlessly above the lesser breeds is an ethical absolute demonstrated time and again during the pandemic and doubtless enshrined somewhere or other in Magna Carta; namely the fundamental principle that science must yield to profiteering. The Science Museum itself was founded as the Museum of Patents, and various fossil fuel companies are continuing the noble tradition by monetising the Science Museum in return for suppression of science. The museum is taking money from Shell, in return for not damaging the company's goodwill or reputation; and an Energy Rah-rah Gallery, scheduled to open in 2023, will be sponsored by a company which is planning a major expansion of its own business in coal. With the National Johnson's greenwashing rally gurgling up for the bully-off, it was presumably this world-beating level of scientific Britishness which made the Science Museum a natural choice for hosting some of the preparatory futilities.