The hipster-scientist crowd over at SEED magazine are fronting a little old-school writing competition.  You can read all about it here.  The Topic:

What is the most significant force acting against science in society today? How can it be overcome?

Where to begin...

Also note that the prize for this competition is fully 2.5x the prize for the competition in the last post, which is understandable given that in the last one all you had to do was to create a new organism.