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… - Chris C. Mooney

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.

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.

Many decisions about science policy are made not through decision or analysis but on ideological and political grounds.