The Agenda - The Anti-Science Left (2013)

It frequently strikes me as particularly interesting that many left-wing people embrace various anti-science stances.  This was shown to me time and time again while I was involved with the Occupy Portland movement, which was largely a left wing endeavor.  I volunteered on the education committee and spent many days running/maintaining the Occupy library.  Conversations with random Occupiers often led to anti-vaccination, government conspiracies (a lot of 9/11 truthers), anti-GMOs, and once or twice anti-fluoridation.  There was one instance where I was "accosted" by a presumably right-wing individual who attempted to convince me that climate change is a lie/not caused by humans, as if that particular stance would make me abandon all left-wing ideologies if I accepted it as true.  Since becoming a skeptic, generally I've become much more critical of embracing any ideological stances which may interfere with scientific bias.  People are so quick to label themselves as anarchist, socialist, communist, liberal, conservative, or any other general political label without considering the generally accepted scientific biases that come coupled with any particular political ideological group.  While I would generally describe myself as a radical, its hard to just blindly label myself as such from now on without tacking on some ancillary qualifiers, my new self-label being a pro-science radical.  I would also encourage those on the side of science to start considering appending your own political views as such, lest you become additionally burdened with those commonly accepted anti-science stances of your own political label.