The tendencies to reform science in Poland have intensified in the recent years , which has led to the domination of science by bureaucracy of various levels. The intended Americanisation of organisation and financing of science greatly encumbered researchers with administrative tasks, deprived them of financial stabilisation of research forcing to become involved, at the cost of research, into seeking financial means designed for academic teaching and scientific research. The transformations taking place do not protect even to a smallest degree against the practising of pseudo-science, and the mechanisms for assessment of academic staff instigate taking steps that ensure satisfaction of bureaucratic expectations in the place of scientific activity. The system being introduced leads to the wasting of funds designed for scientific research, at the same time depriving the academic world of the opportunity of resorting to its legally guaranteed research autonomy. Creation of an illusion of progress achieved thanks to the use of the English language and introduction of ever more numerous obstacles, and formal and legal limits do not provide for a prospect of realistic developments of Polish science.