My guys at the ACLU seem to be a little slow getting to the party on this one.
It's been pretty obvious for quite some time that the Bush administration attitude on the relationship of science to faith is fairly medieval, although their willingness to trample scientific findings that conflict with ideology or political expedience goes a lot farther than simply backing out of the Kyoto Treaty accords or providing cover for those who insist that evolution is "just a theory" unworthy of being taught in our schools.
Think Progress has a list that will probably shock even the most jaded Bush-watchers.
Last fall, when that unnamed White House insider explained to NYTimes reporter Ron Suskind that reality would now bow down before the imperial will of the Bush administration, this is what he meant.
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