Are the media more invested in making sure there’s a close presidential race, so they can rake in the ratings and advertising dollars, than they are in getting at the truth behind the GOP’s anti-science craziness? It’s hard to come to any other conclusion; this is the only way to make sense of this glaring silence on the vitally important issues of science in the 21st century.

I think that’s certainly a lot of it.

Another, perhaps even more cynical possibility is that the media groups hosting these things figure that none of the GOP base actually cares about these things.