Good words

Again, I've lost the source for this quote - I've really got to get better about that. Apologies to whomever put this together.

Marco Rubio's problem with science teaching, Paul Krugman writes, is "that it might undermine children's faith in what their parents told them to believe." And right there you have the modern G.O.P.'s attitude, not just toward biology, but toward everything: If evidence seems to contradict faith, suppress the evidence. 

The most obvious example other than evolution is man-made climate change. As the evidence for a warming planet becomes ever stronger -- and ever scarier -- the G.O.P. has buried deeper into denial, into assertions that the whole thing is a hoax concocted by a vast conspiracy of scientists. And this denial has been accompanied by frantic efforts to silence and punish anyone reporting the inconvenient facts.