COVID-19 pandemic brought to light examples of science denial and politicization while triggering the engagement of scientists in producing information to help policymakers. The pandemic is thus an opportunity to reflect on crucial issues: What conditions facilitate science politicization and politics scientization? What can be done to avoid these dangers and effectively ground policies in science? These issues are particularly relevant for conservation science and practice, as they encompass complex problems with multifaceted consequences and conflicts of values and interests and are thus prone to science politicization and politics scientization. We propose that grounding policymaking in science requires recognizing that: (1) science is not value-free and should be immersed in a broader process that includes conflict mediation to agree on goals; (2) science-policy partnerships should function as transdisciplinary processes; and (3) changing scientific policies and training is vital to break the vicious cycle that maintains science disconnected from society.

COVID-19大流行揭示了科学否认和政治化的例子，同时激发了科学家参与提供信息以帮助决策者的参与。因此，大流行是反思关键问题的机会：什么条件促进了科学政治化和政治科学化？如何避免这些危险并有效地制定科学政策？这些问题与保护科学和实践特别相关，因为它们涵盖了具有多方面后果和价值与利益冲突的复杂问题，因此易于将科学政治化和政治科学化。我们建议，在科学基础上制定政策需要认识到：（1）科学不是没有价值的，应该沉浸在包括冲突调解以达成目标的更广泛过程中；（2）科学政策伙伴关系应作为跨学科的过程；（3）改变科学政策和培训对于打破使科学与社会脱节的恶性循环至关重要。