The House science committee hates science and should be disbanded

Lamar Smith (Credit: AP/Harry Hamburg)
As if named by a Congressional Office of Dark Irony, The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology really seems to hate science.
Its current chair, Lamar Smith, R – Tex., is a climate change denier, seeing a conspiracy in the overwhelming scientific consensus on human-caused global warming, where the vast majority of experts in the world see only good science. In the last four or five Congressional sessions, the attacks on science made by