# Quote — Chris Mooney, The Republican War on Science

> The Right’s war on science also spreads a massive amount of misinformation, and sometimes even fosters outright ignorance. Consider the creationist quest to thwart the teaching of the theory of evolution to public school children. Science has managed to answer one of the most profound questions around—where does the human species come from?—but religious conservatives don’t want anyone to know about it. And with the spread of ignorance and pseudoscience comes a decline in critical thinking—a lapse in our collective capacity to cut through all the lies and distortions and determine which ideas we should trust.

- Author: [Chris Mooney](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-mooney.md)
- Book: [The Republican War on Science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-mooney/the-republican-war-on-science.md)
- Page: 11
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chris_Mooney#The_Republican_War_on_Science_(2005)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-mooney/the-republican-war-on-science/the-rights-war

## More from this book

> But if we care about science and believe that it should play a crucial role in decisions about our future, we must steadfastly oppose further political gains by the modern Right. This political movement has patently demonstrated that it will not defend the integrity of science in any case in which science runs afoul of its core political constituencies. In so doing, it has ceded any right to govern a technologically advanced and sophisticated nation.

p. 255 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-mooney/the-republican-war-on-science/but-if-we-care.md)

> From acid rain to global climate change, from “creation science” to “intelligent design,” conservatives had been meddling with science for years, largely on behalf of their pro-industry and religiously conservative supporters.

p. 224 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-mooney/the-republican-war-on-science/from-acid-rain.md)

> “Healthy skepticism is an essential and treasured feature of scientific analysis,” Gibbons added. “But willful distortion of evidence has no place at the table of scientific inquiry.”

p. 59 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-mooney/the-republican-war-on-science/healthy-skepticism-is-an-essential.md)