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In reply to the discussion: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tells Bill Maher That Anti-Science Liberals Are Full of Shit Too [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(102,115 posts)The big issues - evolution, climate change - where there's an overwhelming amount of science, the right have a huge inclination to deny the facts, in the face of reason.
For vaccines, a few left wing people deny the facts, but it's not an accepted tenet of a political party, like climate change denial is for the Republicans, or part of their religious creed, like it is for right wing Christians (Christians in denominations that have significant numbers on the left, like Catholics or Episcopalians, have far less belief in creationism - it really is a political thing inside religion). And for GMOs, it's more like extreme scepticism - people saying "it might be dangerous, so let's not do it", when it's a fairly new situation, and so far, there's no evidence that GMOs are a health or environmental problem. But because it's new, there isn't the weight of science that vaccines, climate change and evolution have.
Maher is right on this - although he is one of the few kooks about vaccines.
And here are some numbers on GMOs - very little difference in concern between sides:
http://ap-gfkpoll.com/featured/ap-gfk-poll-an-appetite-for-labeling-genetically-modified-foods