Junk Science?

A Skeptical Blog has an interesting post regarding the American right's hostility towards science, suggesting that support for the oxymoronic "Creation Science" isn't just a sop to the religious right, but part of a wider agenda to suggest that science is subjective, and evidence for things like global warming will go away if people stop believing in them. (Link From Body and Soul).

Sometimes it seems to me that some people on the right really do think that reality is subjective, and scientific truths that have uncomfortable consequences for certain business interests and ideologies will conveniently go away as soon as people stop believing in them. I remember reading a free-marketist pamphlet a while ago apparently arguing for a 'consensual reality' when it came to the environment (either that, or the arguments weren't very clear). Either such people have been playing too much Mage:The Ascension, or they're economists, and think that just because an economy is a sort of consensual reality, the same applies to the physical universe.