" seventh and final stage. Now seemingly supported by science, the press, the government, the public, the business and professional opinion leaders, and sometimes by actors purporting to represent religion—in other words, by all other major houses of power in society—industry representatives can step safely out from behind the curtain for the main act of the culture-war drama and plead their case to policymakers or in advertisements to their constituents, or both. "

― Shawn Lawrence Otto , The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It