The war on science

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I already knew about the war on science made by the federal government of my country, http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/02/muzzling-science-canada-cuts_n_3187100.html
but turn out the government beyond the frontier (And most powerful country in the world.) is waging war on science too.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/01/attacks_on_science_government_antiscience_on_the_rise.html#
This is the decline of western world!! ! We will live some really dark times...

It's called the dictatorship of the debt.

Article lost all credibility with me when citing the "global warming deniers".

Yeah, those who deny global warming are not the same as those who globally deny warming, nor as the global ones who warm while they deny. And all this mess for want of a humble hyphen!

Government shouldn't be involved in science period but Lamar Smith is a special kind of *******, he also wrote SOPA. Politics is already heavily involved in "science".

Ministry of Love (Miniluv) = Responsible for inflicting misery, fear, suffering, and torture.
Ministry of Peace (Minipax) = Responsible for maintaining a state of war.
Ministry of Truth (Minitrue) = Responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events.
Ministry of Plenty (Miniplenty) = Responsible for maintaining a state of perpetual poverty, scarcity and financial shortages.
United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology (Hocus Pocus) = Responsible for subverting and suppressing science.