The Bush administration along with its other wars has also been waging a war on science, we had this to a lesser extent in Australia with the now thankfully defunct Howard administration.
The major features of such attacks on science are that any findings that are contrary to the pre set notion of how things are, held by lunatic right wingers, are dismissed as being the work of left wing academics pushing their godless liberal agenda. Further it is not correct to expect the taxpayer to pay for commie propaganda being foisted upon them so government funding should be withdrawn.
As we can see this is nothing more than an updated version of shoot the messenger.
A friend of mine remarked that when a Bush administration official talks of the practical business of the real world and thinking outside the envelope, they are talking from the perspective of someone who walks around with their head up their arse, and what they see when they open their eyes wide with their head so positioned.
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