Science with all its merits and conribution to civilisational development has become OLIGARCHIC and BIGOTED.

What distinguishes science from pseudo-science is that the former is a public enterprise whereas the later a private one.Scientific researches can be verified publicly and need a team work. So contrary to the spirit of occult sciences science has democratic spirit.

Science with all its merits and conribution to civilisational development has become OLIGARCHIC and BIGOTED.

Democracy is part of civilized society, but it does't mean every one is democratic. It's mixed population, in general people scientist are pseudo-democratic, few are democratic and lots of non-democratic. Even monopoly, favoritism, nepotism in editorial and funding, but over all it's better than other area ....

The shortest answer to the above question is NO.If it was democratic it would have been freely and equally accessible to all,rich and poor, black and white!

@ Roman

Not all people can afford a computer. Also, before people can learn science or anything else you need to teach them how to read and wright. Look at africa, some of the poorest countries in the world were illiteracy is so high. Here are some of the facts:

Facts about illiteracy

According to UNESCO, in the world today there are about 1 billion non-literate adults.

This 1 billion is approximately 26 percent of the world's adult population.

Women make up two-thirds of all non-literates.

98 percent of all non-literates live in developing countries.

In the least developed countries, the overall illiteracy rate is 49 percent.

52 percent of all non-literates live in India and China.

Africa as a continent has a literacy rate of less than 60 percent.

In Sub-Saharan Africa since 1980, primary school enrollment has declined, going from 58 percent to 50 percent.

In all developing countries, the percentage of children aged 6-11 not attending school is 15 percent. In the least developed countries, it is 45 percent.(UNESCO 1998)

http://www.sil.org/literacy/litfacts.htm

This was in 1998! I dont have the statistics for now. more people are getting hungry and have no money for education. I will not be surprised at all if illiteracy statistics I mentioned above are worse now not better.

•In 1990 there were over 177 million illiterates in all of Africa, but by 2008 there were over 200 million .

UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data Centre: http://stats.uis.unesco.org

For everyone everywhere, literacy is...a basic human right.

- Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary-General

Clearly this is not the case in the world we live in.

@Roman

In may African nations, GDP per capita is less than USD$200 per year, with the vast majority of the population living on much less. In addition, Africa's share of income has been consistently dropping over the past century by any measure. In 1820, the average European worker earned about three times what the average African did. Now, the average European earns twenty times what the average African does. Although GDP per capita incomes in Africa have also been steadily growing, measures are still far better in other parts of the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Africa

@roman, do you thing an average family earning $200 annually can afford to spend their entire annual income on a computer worth $200 !!! or do you think such a family can afford to spend just about a month salary on a mobile phone!!

These people are hungry they have barely enough to live on.

No, not at all.... Democracy is for the people of the people and by the people as per its rough definition.

'Democrazy' is a fuzzy term, from its early examples in Greece, where only the 'free man' were given power of decision, and more than half of population were 'slaves', also Iceland, the Baske country, to its recall in XIX century, no assets people, and women initially excluded, many totally different systems received the name 'democratic', and, even more peculiar, opposite systems considering themselves as the right model of democracy, as the USA and the USSR, nearly entered in actual, hot conflict, because of this. 

My concern is that some act as if only part of the inhabitants of a land deserved the title 'demo', who gives them the right to decide, and also, every now and then, do some lynching, the criteria for this seem close to the subset of persons who were never attacked by the Pol-Pot regime. Salut †

There are several arguments in the Philosophy of science that question or recognize its democratic character.

An analysis of this, in particular of citizen science, appears in the following text:

Chapter Quality of life and education in the knowledge society