Reflections of week #7, Latour

Comparing to Plato who seems to have more extreme position of allegory of the cave with tough and narrow path between two worlds, I think, Latour suggests a little bit more accessibly connected allegory of cave with more wide path between two worlds, Truth and Social world. He says, with the introduction of more sizable budget and huge business, the path became more wide, which means there is less struggling commute between two worlds for scientist even though there's an obstacle caused by double rupture (p. 10 - 11).

And Latour adds some current interpretation of allegory cave. 'There are two worlds composed of Science and Politics and only a few genius people can go back and forth, which seems make democracy impossible' (p14).

Here are my questions which I have from Latour.
1. What is his position, absolute or more flexible about 'Science'?
If the sciences are more related to daily lives and Science is more about the absolute truth, is he mentioning that Science needs that kind of unquestionable position not to be chaos and to put an order in the society?

2. Then, what is Latour's position of the relationship between Science and Democracy?
What is his definition of democracy which is used in his theory?

What I understood from Latour's 'Laboratory' theory(from wiki) is that there are so many small cases or experiments in the lab which are thrown away just because they are different from the main theory which has a power in that moment. For me, his theory is swirling to me whose brain is not very genius like him and maybe that's his intention, which is not implied to be understood by most common people, like me. If I consider his family background, from very famous wine family in France, he may prefer justifiable absolute status of Science and of himself, I think.

Joohee