Corporate fossil fuel and GMO lobbies, backed by the idiot sheep of the religious right and anti-government Teastains who think the EPA is a communist plot, are driving science "into a dark era."

This is unsurprising to those of us who actually pay attention. What's notable is that someone from the ivory tower of the academic establishment finally said it out loud.

Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and reassuring. Last week Nina Fedoroff, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), broke ranks in a spectacular manner.

She confessed that she was now "scared to death" by the anti-science movement that was spreading, uncontrolled, across the US and the rest of the western world.

"We are sliding back into a dark era," she said. "And there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms."

Wait, what did we call that period in Western civilization when the Church ruled everything? Oh yeah: The Dark Ages.

2 the Ranting Gryphon discusses "science" as believed in by the scrotum-dippers. Hilarity. MP3 is NSFW, use headphones.

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