I think that Nina Fedoroff’s concerns, that a continued degradation of support for science is a definite possibility, are well-founded.  None of the answers so far seem to really address the heart of her concern – that business interests could be nega…

Take a sausage. If you cut it in two, you can do different things with the two half sausages. You can boil one half and eat it in bread with ketchup, and you can grill the other half and have it with some lovely vegetables and potato salad. You don’t have to do the same thing with them. In the case of our ancestral apes, they all evolved – just into different things. Some became humans, other became monkeys.
This separation is incomparable with the dirt-creation, in case you wonder.

Yes. We’re the brainwashed people with universal health care. You know those thousands of dollars in medical expenses you all have? I thought so.
It must be so hard for you that the vast majority of the world’s Muslim population picked us over you. So hard.

Most of the problems of the world are, and always have been, cause by religion. Mankind will never truly be free until the black yoke of religion is lifted by the light of truth and logic.