Quote:Really I've never heard anyone but wackos demonize vaccinations. No idea about GM food? Why is this political though? Science isn't left or right?

 

The left in the US is anti-GMO and the anti-vaccine crowd is mainly from the left. In Australia it may be different.


 

It's political because the government is using it to justify taxes and regulations. You should know this; Australia has used Global Warming alarm to institute a carbon tax. In the US the bald eagle is protected. It's a federal crime to kill a bald eagle ... but windmill power is exempt.


 

Science paid for by politicians becomes left/right. 
Alarm keeps the funds flowing. When you have to pay the mortgage and pony up for your kids' braces, tossing in some disaster prediction is preferable to losing your job if the government no longer sees the need to fund climate science research. If you look at the actual science rather than the press releases, you'd see that all of those doomsday scenarios assume an extremely unlikely series of events. When you see the words "can," "might," or "may" put that in the same context as you "might" win the Powerball lottery.

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