I’ll like to recommend Jennifer Washburn’s story from Discover Magazine. The claim here is that although there have been a number of highly visible attacks on American science, everything from the fundamentalist assault on evolution to the Bush administration’s strong-arming of government scientists, this is not the worst:

Washburn: “for many people who pay close attention to research and development (R&D), the biggest threat to science has been quietly occurring under the radar, even though it may be changing the very foundation of American innovation. The threat is money—specifically, the decline of government support for science and the growing dominance of private spending over American research.” Read Washburn’s article here.