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

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.

Media coverage tends to be episodic and event-driven, always in search of the dramatic and the new.

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.