Citizen or scientist: pick one

Let us retire the term citizen scientist. I've seen that around here-and-there; a book at Nederland's library noted the term.

Heinlein teaches that the citizen is a loyalist to his sovereign, sometimes loyal-opposition should the sovereign stray from his/their mandate. Scientody is how the citizen and the sovereign determine how, intelligently, to exercise that mandate. "SCIENCE!" happens when we have policy-driven data (powerpoint).

You can do research, or you can influence policy. You cannot - ethically - do both. You can be a citizen, and a scientist; but not at the same time.

BACKDATE 10/12: I should have noted this months ago.