Agencies beyond the scientific world are feeling the effect from Bush's tactics as well. Volunteering with a non-profit that focuses on harm reduction for injection drug users and sex workers, I have watched our budget get cut to almost nothing because we work with people who don't fit into the "no sex before marriage" and "just say no" groups.
We are also struggling with the self-censorship issue of not being able to refer using common words like homosexual or addict. It has made grant writing impossible. Funny though, if we added the words "faith based" to our mission statement, we would qualify for ungodly amounts of money.
It's disgusting. It's unrealistic. It's killing people.