Herbert fawned over Mooney’s book, the primary thrust of which is that psychology, neuroscience, and genetics explain why Republicans are “smart idiots” and reality deniers. Herbert found Mooney’s book “convincing,” despite the fact that few (if any) scientists would agree... As described in the New York Times, such critics resent the “bastardization [of neuroscience] by glib, sometimes ill-informed, popularizers.” ...In partial fulfillment of this mission, we chose to address an enormous myth that circulates in our media culture; namely, the idea that conservatives are uniquely anti-science and progressives are uniquely pro-science. Nothing could be further from reality... the destructive anti-vaccine movement has a long association with the progressive left. To deny that is simply to ignore history... in 2005, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. infamously wrote an article for Rolling Stone and Salon (since retracted) that erroneously linked vaccines to autism... In 2008... Obama repeated the myth, and as president in 2009, his administration’s pandering to the anti-vaccine crowd was partially to blame for the H1N1 influenza vaccine shortage.. Bill Maher regularly spouts anti-vaccine and anti-Western medicine paranoia... Scientists see water fluoridation, which particularly benefits the poor, as a major public health triumph. But not progressive activists in Portland, Oregon, who fought to prevent the fluoridation of their city’s water supply... Greenpeace and the Union of Concerned Scientists [et al] also oppose genetic modification, despite its tremendous life-saving potential in areas such as preventing vitamin A deficiency, a disease that blinds 250,000 to 500,000 children every year and kills half of them. The California Democratic Party, in direct opposition to the American Medical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, endorsed that state’s Proposition 37, a referendum that would have unscientifically required the labeling of genetically modified food. Despite the fact that thousands of deaths in the U.S. are attributable to the pollution produced by burning fossil fuels each year, progressives oppose energy policies that could reduce our dependency on coal and oil. Progressives historically have been anti-nuclear power, and today, they are opposed to natural gas, a much cleaner fossil fuel. Instead, they embrace wind and solar, neither of which are currently capable of meeting the world’s growing energy demand... progressives routinely come down on the wrong side of those and other issues.
There's Silent Spring and the outlawing of DDT, based entirely on junk science. That alone has lead to millions of malaria deaths.
How about the junk science over IUD's and silicone breast implants? So much for the Left believing women should have the final say about their bodies.
Or the biggest hoax of all, going all the way back to the 18th Century - the population bomb. Malthus and Ehrlich claimed population increased exponentially but food production only arithmetically. They were wrong about the latter. Average daily calorie intake worldwide has increased ever since the end of WWII and will continue to increase unless the Left manages to destroy the Green Revolution, which they are trying to do. Oh, and even the UN admits worldwide population will level off by 2050.