Rejecting Pluto's demotion - Is this another case of anti-science syndrome?

In the year 1615 the Roman Inquisition started to fight Galileo’s rejection of the geocentric view that the Earth is at the center of the universe.

In the year 2006 a large portion of the public and many politicians started to fight IAU’s rejection of Pluto being a planet of the solar system. Pluto is now classified as the second-largest known dwarf planet.

Does history repeat itself? Is the huge sentiment caused by people who might suffer from anti-science syndrome? Should politicians decide whether evolution is a fact or whether Pluto is a planet? Is science now seen as an esoteric discipline, an ‘ivory tower’ activity which is somehow divorced from the everyday realities of life?

From Wikipedia: While some accepted the reclassification, others seek to overturn the decision with online petitions urging the IAU to consider reinstatement. A resolution introduced by some members of the California state assembly light-heartedly denounces the IAU for “scientific heresy,” among other crimes. The U.S. state of New Mexico’s House of Representatives passed a resolution in honor of Tombaugh, a longtime resident of that state, which declared that Pluto will always be considered a planet while in New Mexican skies and that March 13, 2007 will be Pluto Planet Day. The Illinois State Senate passed a similar resolution in 2009, on the basis that Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto, was born in Illinois. The resolution asserted that Pluto was “unfairly downgraded to a ‘dwarf’ planet” by the IAU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto#Public_reaction_to_the_change

What are your thoughts? Do you agree that Pluto is a dwarf planet like Eris and Ceres? Do you think politicians should get involved to pass resolutions on scientific findings?