The first time I looked at the thread, I thought it said, "Science as defined by Kracus."
Anyway, the thing I'm most worried about is the public response to this. Most people don't have a slight grasp about how science works, so I fear other ID advocates will see this as a step forward and start pushing it in other communities, and the ignorami will just eat it up. Like Canis said, I don't think basic sciences will be set back by this because the scientific community won't accept something without analyzing it to death (usually). And the rest of the population will go on being completely unaware of what scientists are doing.
What does worry me are the areas where science spills over to the public sector: drug development, medicine, and epidemiology. These are where scientific developments start to be scrutinized by people like George Bush, for example, and that's not a good thing.
In the long run, of course, it will weaken science education, but the less-cynical part of me still has to believe that those kids who really are interested in pursuing scientific careers are able to tell good theory from bad. I hope...
