And then there’s religion, the source of the deepest fissure in the science-society relationship. - Chris C. Mooney

From acid rain to global climate change, from “creation science” to “intelligent design,” conservatives had been meddling with science for years, largely on behalf of their pro-industry and religiously conservative supporters.

Media coverage tends to be episodic and event-driven, always in search of the dramatic and the new.

Healthy skepticism is an essential and treasured feature of scientific analysis," Gibbons added. "But willful distortion of evidence has no place at the table of scientific inquiry.