Science needs exactly as much policing as every other human activity: airlines, accounting, agriculture etc.
I have no problem with you "drawing everyone's attention" to the fact that I think so. Indeed I consider the above to be self-evident, because humans aren't angels.
Maybe you confuse policing with censorship or political pressure? That is not the same thing.
"The rest is just rhetoric."
Nope, you just prefer to ignore the 800 pound gorilla in the room whose name is "replication crisis". Partly caused by outright fraud.
