"It Is Crucial to Understand the Sources and Contours of This Skepticism Toward Science and Scientists"

"Through all of this disputation, the core image of science as a value-neutral, and thus innately amoral, enterprise has sunk ever deeper into the cultural bedrock. Generations of commentators have taken for granted that science entails a morally detached approach to the world, even as they clashed bitterly over its applications and implications. The consequences, though hard to measure, have been substantial." 

Andrew Jewett at Boston Review explains "How Americans Came to Distrust Science," while Richard Dawkins at The Spectator decries the "insidious attacks on scientific truth."