While Waxman may have accused Republicans of presiding over the "most anti-science" Congress in history, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) tells Mother Jones that his colleague's characterization doesn't even go far enough: "This is the most anti-science body since the Catholic Church ostracized Galileo for determining that the earth revolves around the sun."Mother Jones, emphasis added
I wish it were possible to collect information about all the wrongdoing of the GOP into one diary, but even a series of books would probably find such an endeavor impossible. Even fully covering a specific topic is, realistically, far beyond the scope of any single diary. In trying to provide an aggregate summary of any currently relevant topic, the best I can give is a brief overview of the most recent and egregious Republican transgressions.
Today we address in brief (kind of) the GOP’s war on science.