Journalists should treat fringe scientific claims with considerable skepticism and find out what major peer-reviewed papers or assessments have to sa… - Chris C. Mooney

When pressed, ideological appropriators of science will rarely relinquish a cherished idea no matter how many times it has been convincingly debunked. They seek to adopt the veneer of science, but not the critical rigor that should accompany it.

A change in administration doesn’t automatically fix the underlying problems, which include the corporate media’s marginalizing of science, ongoing divides over science and religion, and an American culture that all too often questions the value of intellect and even glorifies dumbness.

Today this country is also home to a populace that, to an alarming extent, ignores scientific advances or outright rejects scientific principles.