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

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.

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.

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.