When politicians use bad science to justify themselves, rather than good science to make up their minds, we can safely assume that wrongheaded and ev… - Chris C. Mooney

To be sure, the intelligent design movement does not claim an animus against science. Science abusers never do. Rather, the movement seeks to redefine the very nature of science to serve its objectives.

The emergence of the religious right onto the political stage in the 1970s—motivated in part by its adherents’ resentment of the nation’s intellectual and scientific elites—was also a major factor in curtailing the role of science in public policy.

But when they don’t like what science has to tell them, those wielding political power of the have another option besides running away from the truth: suppression.