{"id":4394,"date":"2011-01-18T11:46:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2011-01-18T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T16:46:39","slug":"denialism-is-different-on-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=4394","title":{"rendered":""Denialism" is Different on the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

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https://ramedicare.com/ramedica-pain-relief/ Mooney goes on to argue that the anti-science attitudes often embraced by the left, (such as anti-vaxx and anti-GMO) haven’t been codified into the Democratic party the way rejection of climate science and global warming as a legitimate concern has become party line for Republicans. True enough.<\/p>\n

Get Tramadol Online But does that make the anti-vaccination movement any less of a threat to public health and society? Because while their irrationality may not have infected the Democratic party, anti-vaxxers sure look like a potent, influential force to me.<\/p>\n

Yet if you read between the lines of Mooney’s post, it sounds to me as if he’s playing down the significance of left-wing science “denialism.”<\/p>\n

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That’s Chris Mooney’s assertion, that it hasn’t become associated with liberals in a monolithic way as it has with American conservatives, especially in the political sense: just because denialism occurs sometimes on the left does not mean that in the U.S. today”\u201cand particularly in mainstream U.S. politics”\u201cit’s predominantly a left wing phenomenon. Mooney goes on… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2561],"tags":[695,835,851],"class_list":["post-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-science","tag-anti-vaccination-movement","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}