I do get a kick out of the labeling of the piece as a "novel". It's almost an outright admission that the whole premise is false.
Oh, well, folks. Welcome to the Brave New World, where denying federal funds to research makes one "anti-Science".
We ought to flip this whole concept about a War on Science around, folks. After all, we're not the ones opposed to the trial of new mining technology or genetically enhanced crops. We aren't the ones who send in activists to blow up research labs, either, I notice.
Spurlock is a leftist nut. When he introduced us to his ultra-vegetarian wife in "Supersize Me," I knew it was going to be an anti-corporate propoganda flic.