The pursuit of science is inherently the pursuit of knowledge through reason, experimentation, logic, and challenge of unproven postulates. Fundamentalism abhors these intellectual attributes because they are inconsistent with their premise that one's belief and conduct should be guided by faith; faith unchallenged, unquestioned, and not diminished by criteria that they alone will dictate. The path of the fundamentalist is, frankly, a much easier one to grasp and follow. It also more readily permits the exploitation of ethnic, religious, and even national bonds than the more burdensome preoccupation of pursuing scientific areas of investigation.
I would propose that the scientific community institute a moratorium on research. Most scientists are sufficiently competent to sustain themselves and their families by other intellectual pursuits.
When the warped "right" find that people are beginning to drop because there are no new antibiotics; when people are fighting for food in the streets because pesticides and ...
