Without the Internet, the modern vaccine-skeptic movement probably wouldn’t exist, at least not in it current form. - Chris C. Mooney

You can't prove what's going to happen in the future," explains Naomi Oreskes, who has written extensively on the uses of modeling. "But that doesn't mean you don't have a rational basis for action.

For a very long time, American scientists have found themselves pitted against both our businesslike, can-do attitudes and our piety.

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.