The Republican war on science is un-American - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2011/10/15/the_republican_war_on_science_is_un_american/singleton/

Scientists don't necessarily have a great record running democracies. You think about who ran the central European countries, who ran the Soviet Union. They were mostly agronomists and hydrologist, engineers. You can be really smart and clever about systems, and still not be a big small-D democrat.