A quick guide for the anti-science Left on GMO product labelling
18 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
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Smallpox was eradicated not that long ago by vaccines
14 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
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Anti-GMO bingo
11 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
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Anti-science Left alert: climate alarmists routinely reject the IPCC consensus
10 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
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Anti-science Left alert: GMOs have already escaped into the environment
10 Dec 2014 1 Comment
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Anti-science Left alert: Biotech and global warming
09 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
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Behind on my anti-GMO movement blogging
08 Dec 2014 2 Comments
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Anti-Science Left alert: food labelling and natural food
01 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
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Anti-Science Left alert: Fight Ebola with homeopathy–NZ Green party MP – updated
30 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, do gooders, GMOs, Quacks, vaccines
NZ Green MP Steffan Browning says giving his support to a call for the World Health Organisation to deploy homeopathic remedies to combat the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
Mr Browning this week signed a petition started by Australian Fran Sheffield which calls on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to
End the suffering of the Ebola crisis. Test and distribute homeopathy as quickly as possible to contain the outbreaks.
Asked whether he thought homeopathy could cure Ebola, Mr Browning said:
It’s not for me to go down that track at all.
The World Health Organisation, world health authorities are doing that.
They will be considering I hope absolutely every possible options to this very concerning disease.
Green Party co-leader Russel Norman said the petition did not reflect the position of the party, and agreed it was unwise of Browning to have signed it.
Green party health spokesman Kevin Hague said he was "disappointed" Browning had signed the petition.
Browning is also on the record has been anti-GMOs, and is the green party spokesmen on genetic modification as well as the range of science-based portfolios such as agriculture and biosecurity.
To listen to most pundits, evolution, stem cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth mentioning—and the only people who are anti-science are on the right of politics.
Those on the left have numerous fallacies of their own. Aversion to clean energy programs, basic biological research, and even life-saving vaccines come naturally to many progressives. These are positions supported by little more than junk-science and paranoid thinking.
Concerns about vaccine safety and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are often held up as evidence of anti-scientific beliefs among liberals. The anti-GMO movement is a product of the political left and has reached levels of delusion, paranoia and anti-intellectualism worthy of Michele Bachmann and young-earth creationists.
Though 70 percent of scientists support nuclear power, left-leaning organizations such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club strongly oppose it.
Fact check: conspiracy theories aren’t just for conservatives
29 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
in F.A. Hayek, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, conspiracy theories, conspiratorial left, FA Hayek, GMOs, Milton Friedman, Mont Pelerin Society, neoliberal conspiracies, neoliberalism, precautionary principle
Respondents were asked whether they agreed with four statements:
- “Much of our lives are being controlled by plots hatched in secret places,”
- “Even though we live in a democracy, a few people will always run things anyway,”
- “The people who really ‘run’ the country are not known to the voters.”
- “Big events like wars, the current recession, and the outcomes of elections are controlled by small groups of people who are working in secret against the rest of us.”
Source: monkey cage
American conservatives distrust science in part because they identify it with the regulatory state. When science means nuclear weapons, innovation and winning the space race, conservatives love it. When they associate science with the EPA, regulation, and global institutions, they hate it.
Just as climate science is unpalatable for the Right, the Left is uncomfortable with, for example, genetic modification and nuclear power. Research into risks and benefits of these technologies are met with suspicion by the Left.
I find it bizarre the right wing politics is considered more conspiratorial than the left wing – a left-wing that is currently obsessed with the comings and goings of the top 1%.
A gentleman by the name of Karl Marx had a conspiracy theory of history, that the bosses were conspiring against the workers, there is a ruling class pulling the strings from behind the scenes, and there is an inherent inequality of bargaining power between workers and employers because the bosses plot to keep wages down.
It should be mentioned in this connection that Karl Marx himself was one of the first to emphasize the importance, for the social sciences, of these unintended consequences.
In his more mature utterances, he says that we are all caught in the net of the social system. The capitalist is not a demoniac conspirator, but a man who is forced by circumstances to act as he does; he is no more responsible for the state of affairs than is the proletarian.
This view of Marx’s has been abandoned – perhaps for propagandist reasons, perhaps because people did not understand it – and a Vulgar Marxist Conspiracy theory has very largely replaced it. It is a come-down – the come-down from Marx to Goebbels.
But it is clear that the adoption of the conspiracy theory can hardly be avoided by those who believe that they know how to make heaven on earth. The only explanation for their failure to produce this heaven is the malevolence of the devil who has a vested interest in hell.
Karl Popper
Don’t let me start on how the Left over Left goes on about neoliberal conspiracy with Hayek and Friedman ruling the roost through the truly obscure Mont Pelerin Society.
The IMF, World Trade Organisation and trade negotiations are riddled with conspiracies if I am to believe my friends in the Left over Left.
Mention multinational corporations to a member of the Left of good standing and conspiracy theories pour fourth.
It would be unfair to bring up GMOs to remind the left of how anti-science it is. Don’t kick people when they’re down. The whole point of the precautionary principle is to allow the Left to reject good science.
At bottom, what call the barricades works if it’s not sexed-up with a conspiracy theory?
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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