Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era'

Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/19/science-scepticism-usdomesticpolicy/print

"As Fedoroff pointed out, university and government researchers are hounded for arguing that rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are changing the climate. Their emails are hacked while Facebook campaigns call for their dismissal from their posts, calls that are often backed by rightwing politicians. At the last Republican party debate in Florida, Rick Santorum insisted he should be the presidential nominee simply because he had cottoned on earlier than his rivals Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney to the "hoax" of global warming."