A slavish devotion to
narrow ideology has led many people to reject overwhelming
scientific consensus as nothing but a plot by malevolent forces to
control ordinary people’s lives. If you think that sentence
describes conservative skeptics of global warming, congratulations
— you’re right. If you think it describes liberal opponents of
genetically modified crops, congratulations — you’re right again.
Progressives have gotten a lot of mileage mocking conservatives’
truculent refusal to accept scientific conclusions. But, A. Barton
Hinkle points out that the left has exhibited similar truculence on
another subject: genetically modified organisms
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