Whether it is climate change, or evolution, or even an honest look at US history, the Republican Party has become the La Brea Tar Pits of dead ideologies. If the remaining Republicans who believe in science do not stage a revolt within their party, and soon, they will someday find they too have been purged for the crime of actually thinking.

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/30/it_feels_like_a_personal_assault_how_the_gop_drives_away_scientists/