The Discovery Institute is a non-profit religious think-tank infamous for its attempts to get intelligent design creationism taught in American schools, in particular under the guise of “Academic Freedom”, but is also associated with climate change denialism and whatnot. Many of its goals are described in the Wedge Document, and among the infamous school textbook candidates published by the institute are Of Pandas and People and Explore Evolution.
Steve Buri is the institute’s president. Now, Buri hasn’t actually said much about the contents of the denialism pushed by the institutions and its various centers, but he has explicitly expressed his support for the activitivies at the Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and the center’s activities. And he is president of one of the best organized and tireless anti-science campaign groups in the US, and that is more than bad enough to earn him a brief entry here.
Diagnosis: Yes, the president of the Discovery Institute, no less, and as such an important figure in one of the more significants efforts to undermine science, reason, accountability and civilization, no less.