Chutz­pah alert: GOP pres­i­den­tial hope­ful Rick San­to­rum accused lib­er­als of being the true ene­mies of sci­ence:

Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Rick San­to­rum charged on Mon­day that Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma and Democ­rats were ​“anti-sci­ence” because they refused to exploit the Earth’s nat­ur­al resources to the lim­its of technology. Over the week­end the can­di­date had been crit­i­cized for say­ing that Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma fol­lowed a the­ol­o­gy that was not ​“based on the Bible.” He lat­er insist­ed that he was talk­ing about the pres­i­dent sid­ing with ​“rad­i­cal envi­ron­men­tal­ists.” [Raw Story]

As a U.S. sen­a­tor, San­to­rum spon­sored an amend­ment that would have forced schools to teach the pseu­do­science of intel­li­gent design at the expense of evo­lu­tion. Yet Sato­rum’s sus­pi­cion of fos­sils does not extend to fos­sil fuels. In pri­vate life, he became a well-com­pen­sat­ed advo­cate of frack­ing in Penn­syl­va­nia.

Dur­ing the GOP pri­ma­ry, San­to­rum came out against insur­ance cov­er­age for all pre-natal test­ing, because pre­na­tal test­ing might lead to abor­tions. In oth­er words he wants to force peo­ple who can’t afford expen­sive pre­na­tal tests to give birth to chil­dren with cat­a­stroph­ic dis­abil­i­ties. What a wise and com­pas­sion­ate leader.