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Policymaking by ideology requires that reality be set aside; it can be maintained only by moving towards ever more authoritarian forms of governance.

— Chris Mooney The Republican War on Science (2005)

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Media coverage tends to be episodic and event-driven, always in search of the dramatic and the new.

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Whereas good science is rewarded for being painstaking and nuanced, politics is the enemy of subtlety.

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And then there’s religion, the source of the deepest fissure in the science-society relationship.

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Without the Internet, the modern vaccine-skeptic movement probably wouldn’t exist, at least not in it current form.

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In part, the divorce of science and politics can be explained by the very different worldviews that inform each field.

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