GOP and Science

We would like to hope that our elected officials were college educated and considered intellectuals. After all they deal with very complicated issues everyday. They have to read thousands of bills, papers each year. So how is it that some in Congress can not even agree on scientific facts? 
Joe Barton top GOP congressman from Texas states "CO2 is good for the environment, it is odorless, colorless, tasteless—it's not a threat to human health in terms of being exposed to it." Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) offered up a bill that would eliminate Clean Air Act provisions that would allow the EPA to set common-sense standards to cut the pollution from large industrial polluters. The bill would repeal the fact of a scientific determination by the EPA that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas pollutants are a threat to human health and welfare. And they do not state one study that proves the EPA is incorrect. Today one very prominent speaker for the GOP-Ann Coulter- even said that nuclear radiation is good for you. "at some level--much higher than the minimums set by the U.S. government--radiation is good for you," and actually reduces the risk of cancer. Even when given the facts of years of research from the National Academy of Sciences, scientific academies from around the world and a vast majority of the world's climate scientists the Republican party line is that  all these scientists are wrong.-The believe that the current climate change is a natural occurance, humans have nothing to do with it. What is really mind boggling is the GOP's refusal to fund healthcare and the health sciences. The Republican house budget calls for $1 billion in cuts for the National Institutes Of Health. NIH is the branch of government that does medical research. Thanks to the efforts of the NIH, in 2007 cancer deaths declined for the first time. Heart disease and stroke deaths are down. They are against stem cell research and because of their blocking research funding for stem cells America has fallen behind China and other countries. And since the GOP's campaign was all about jobs, jobs jobs, the NIH employs hundreds of thousands of Americans. The NIH's research developed the MRI, and how virus cause cancer. The NIH has been supported by Republican presidents and congressmen since its inception in 1887, yet these "new" Republican/Tea Party elected officials believe we don't need to support this kind of research anymore. In Texas the republican party is even looking to ban the teaching of evolution. The GOP keep hoping we roll back time, to the good old days when they did not have to think intelligently, back to what pre 1859? after all thats when  Irish scientist John Tyndall correctly explained how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere “traps” heat radiation, and also when Darwin publishedThe Origin of Species. Science is from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge". I believe a knowledgeable electorate is good for America, and what the founding fathers wanted. What the GOP wants is an electorate that only understands their talking points.