But framing cultural analytics as a battle between science v not-science misses the point, Piper believes.
As I argue in my new book The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America, we are in the midst of a new biopolitics in which the power of science confounds the usual left-right spectrum of public policy, one that by no means favors one side or the other.
"It's a battle agricultural science can't afford to lose," he says, adding that a budget boost would signify a "recognition that agricultural science matters and that we should keep going".
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Inhofe frequently invokes Genesis in his battle against science because, well, he is a humble man: "My point is, God's still up there," he has said.
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He says he will end the Bush administration's "battle against science", including its ban on federal funding for stem cells, and claims support from 48 Nobel laureates.
Inhofe frequently invokes Genesis in his battle against science because, well, he is a humble man: "My point is, God's still up there,'' he has said.
But while Dollhouse and Orphan Black share a premise and a similar preoccupation with the battle between science and religion, that's where the comparisons should end.
In this battle between science and religion, Bryan stated under oath that he believed in the literal truth of the story of the temptation in the Garden and, further, that he believed Eve had been made from Adam's rib.
For instance, there are those who may wish for climate change deniers such as Jeremy Clarkson and James Delingpole to be swept away by a literal and metaphorical wave of poetic justice, in some disaster movie-style punchline to their heroic battle against science.
