When I met Rand Simberg at a party at Eugene Volokh’s house years ago, he struck me as a very sane conservative. We actually had a long talk about science and the space program, and that was one of the things that influenced me to think the conservative movement had moved on from the crazy anti-science attitudes of the past.

Man, was I ever wrong. Simberg has categories for the types of science he’s willing to accept, and they seem to coincide entirely with the interests of big business and the far right.

These people really suck, and I guess I had to learn that lesson, hard.