WHY THEY HATE HIM: Scott Pruitt, Warrior for Science. How could “the party of science,” as Democrats like to call themselves, be opposed to the EPA administrator’s demand for more transparency in sharing data and more rigorous peer review of the agency’s research? Because better science could get in the way of the green political agenda. My City Journal piece looks at the fight to get rid of Pruitt in the context of the EPA’s history of junk science. Once again, the real war on science is the one waged by the left, as John Stossel writes at Fox News.