Industry will always have a strong motivation to conceal or deny scientific results if it hurts their profits..look at the tobacco industry.
True enough, but creationism or bad science in a generalized sense would hurt the profits of the tobacco industry, as well as the medical device, pharmaceutical, oil, and aerospace industry. Which is why, IMO, it won't prevail in the long run. Evetuually the cocktails at the club wing of the Republican Party will split from the religious right wing.