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.

— Chris Mooney Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (2009)

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