No one in Congress senses the need for science in their daily lives. - 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.

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

Policymaking by ideology requires that reality be set aside; it can be maintained only by moving towards ever more authoritarian forms of governance.