[croon]

> The idea that politics is or should somehow be based on facts is misguided.

> We have science for facts what we choose to do with those facts is were politics come in.

The second sentence explicitly contradicts the first one. By your second one you are saying that politics is based on the facts that science provides. Or rather, should be.

[ThomPete]

No I am saying that facts are used in politics and that we choose to use those differently.

But facts aren't the only things which are used in politics.