"But it is only half the story. If powerful religious commitments lead to politically driven abuses of science, so doe…"

"When pressed, ideological appropriators of science will rarely relinquish a cherished idea no matter how many times i…"

"“Healthy skepticism is an essential and treasured feature of scientific analysis,” Gibbons added. “But willful distor…"

"“You can’t prove what’s going to happen in the future,” explains Naomi Oreskes, who has written extensively on the us…"

"But when they don’t like what science has to tell them, those wielding political power of the have another option bes…"

"To be sure, it remains up to policymakers to decide whether the economic costs of such preventative measures outweigh…"

"As three of Meyer’s scientific critics have noted, “‘An unknown intelligent designer did something, somewhere, someho…"

"To be sure, the intelligent design movement does not claim an animus against science. Science abusers never do. Rathe…"

"From acid rain to global climate change, from “creation science” to “intelligent design,” conservatives had been medd…"

"The success of science depends on an apparatus of democratic adjudication—anonymous peer review, open debate, the fac…"