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

Over on One Good Move, an atheist/liberal/science blog I follow (ahem) religiously, they had a link from an article in The Guardian that disturbed me:

Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and reassuring. Last week Nina Fedoroff, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), broke ranks in a spectacular manner.
She confessed that she was now "scared to death" by the anti-science movement that was spreading, uncontrolled, across the US and the rest of the western world.

Go here for the rest of the story.