If you think global warming is a fake, you're going to be in for a surprise in a few years. The only question for scientists nowadays is how much effect humans have upon it, not whether or not it's happening.

Sex education isn't science, it isn't even sociology, it's EDUCATION.

Science research is still going strong in the US, but with the baptists running the white house, things like stem cell research, and many other important fields are going to end up years ahead in other countries.

Space used to be US and russian territory, now it'll be europe and china's. The US's biggest problem isn't politics in science (that's everywhere) but the fact that the same people who think outsourcing is a good idea are running science programs, short term sell able results are the only things they want.