Nina Fedoroff - We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about

We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.

- Nina Fedoroff

source: "Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.