Which Political side is more Anti-Science? The Left or the Right?

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cth96190 · Accepted Answer

Tell a leftard about the measured differences between the races (intelligence, creativity, personality traits, brain size, as well as skeletal and muscular structure) and see how quickly they ignore science.
Talk to them about the Earth’s climate, its history (such as the Mediaeval Warm Period) and how increased carbon dioxide causes plants to thrive and watch their heads explode.
Their entire belief system is at odds with reality.

RealMarek · Accepted Answer

Which side claims that “believing in science” is refraining from questioning the consensus of experts, censoring unpopular hypotheses, claiming the peer review system is invulnerable to corruption, etc? I hate to break it to you... that isn’t science.

TheSpartan · Answer

In terms of the colloquial American "left" vs "right", it's fair to say that both sides treat some types of science denial as dogmatic. However, there are major differences in the real world, practical importance of science denial. For example, let's take the right's favorite forms of denialism: evolution, YEC, and anthropogenic climate change. Out of the three of these, only one is of any real-world importance (climate change). This is, of course, important, but the American right can still be made to support many measures that would combat climate change (tariffs, nuclear power, conservation, etc.). On the other hand, with the American "left", their forms of science denial come in the form of denying human biological differences, and the results of this are catastrophic. Over sixty years of racial policy and untold trillions of dollars have been squandered by the Left in pursuit of pseudoscientific tactics that show no signs of addressing racial gaps in health, education, incomes, crime, etc. 2020's summer of riots is a perfect demonstration in the Left's childish inability to accept the scientific reality that all men are not created equal. And unlike the right, whom have little real institutional power--and whose scientific denialisms amount to little more than curiosities--the Left's pseudoscientific mass delusions are official policy of the most powerful institutions in the Western World today.

WindAtMyBack · Answer

Almost nobody is anti-science.

People confuse being skeptical of NEW science that has not withstood the test of time as being against science. Skepticism itself is an important part of science. In my lifetime there have been quite a few things that were considered to be science with strong backing from the scientific community. Then it turned out to be wrong.

For people who are skeptical, it doesn't mean they reject the massive body of science accumulated over thousands of years. The things that are controversial are extremely minor compared to the whole body of knowledge.

I know that there are things called atoms, and they are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons. I know plants use photosynthesis. I know that water erodes rocks. I know roughly the size of the Earth and moon, and how the moon affects tides. The list is endless. Being skeptical of one particular new science does not in any way reject the body of science as a whole.

People want to call someone anti-science when they aren't. I'm sure you can find some people who really are anti-science, but that would be cherry picking to the extreme. That in itself is anti-science because cherry picking has no place in science.

MCheetah · Answer

The Right believes in a magical sky wizard who watches us at all time and the Left thinks it can make up genders and pronouns at a whim. Sorry to ruffle everyone's feathers, but both are pretty horribly anti-science. not that "the science" is some objective arbiter of what is true and factual, as you can use science and data to twist anything into a certain narrative you want to hear. Haven't you ever heard how easy it is to lie using statistics?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/bVG2OQp6jEQ

But yeah; when you've got people who still believe everything in the Bible was factual and objectively happened, and then you've got people who believe whatever nonsense is fabricated out of thin air such as "non-binary," should be taken even the tiniest bit seriously, then you end up with the average human being, which is an anti-science dumbass who couldn't survive one day on their own without the geniuses of the world wiping their butts for them.

I hate to admit it (not really), but 99% of humanity is a species surviving only by a handful of non-morons out there. And what's worse is, the more intelligent humans are, the more evil and sociopathic they tend to be, like Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few. But when you grow up in a species as dumb as this, can you really blame them/us?

OPTION C: EQUAL.

asdjwbdjibsg · Answer

I think that question should have a couple considerations.

Firstly, left leaning individuals are conistnely seen making up higher proportions of adults with higher levels education and university degrees. However, whilst scientist may be more left leaning, they aren't politicians (www. pewresearch. com)

Secondly, the right leaning politician appear to show a greater emphasis on the importance of religion guiding and being compatible with political policy making. Science and the scientific method which propels science is largely irreconcilable with religion. However, I can think of a VERY right leaning regime in 1940 Germany which were inspired by Darwins theory of natural selection and its relevance and application to different groups society. Though on the other hand, I can think of a leftist Russian in the 1920s who put researchers under strict political control and sought the kind of research that validated political doctrine, not the kind that relied on the scientific method.

Thirdly, I have noticed some in the left believing that biological sex can be changed which i think is anti science which observed at an objective biological level. Socially, you can be any gender you want but that doesn't then involve biology but rather sociology. But like the right leaning denying or downplaying climate change action, the adherence to science by politicians are largely irrelevent to political party but rather its utility in political discourse.

Aerissa_Jade · Answer

I wouldn't say either is, but politics will start to use science in a political way, which then makes it less believable and people go against it.

Since most people can't actually verify the science themselves, it becomes a trust issue. If science is a political tool, now people no longer believe it.

Science really should be neutral and no one should use it as a political tool, sadly we are far past that.

The vaccine for example has been politicalized, they say it is safe but yet the US government has given the manufacturers blanket legal immunity for lawsuits if someone has severe side effects. That means that the science no longer matters, because actions speak louder than words.

BCA6010 · Answer

Right now, it's the left by a longshot. Not only are they actively denying basic understood facts about biology and virology among other things, they're now saying "don't question the science!" Which is in itself about as anti-science as it gets. They have effectively turned blind obedience to bureaucratic quacks into an aggressive doomsday cult-like religion that almost fully embodies every negative trope about religions that their ignorant self-proclaimed intellectuals like to regularly accuse people of, frequently against the claims of the actual Frontline researchers. The hysteria over Omicron is probably the most egregious example of that last point.

Since we're on the subject of denying reality, the American left is also far more guilty of ignoring or rewriting history to fit future goals as well. There's a difference between embellishing and flat out lying, and both are bad but the latter is far worse with more malicious implications.

exitseven · Answer

The left. They want to have electric cars to move away from fossil fuel. They do not realize that you have to generate electricity to power all those cars. The electricity must be generated with FOSSIL FUEL.
They want to bankrupt the future ao all Americans to combat global warming even though it has not been proven that is is caused by anything manmade.
Then when you take into account all the contradictions during the Covid pandemic it shows the left is not interested in solving problems but only staying in power.

Oigit · Answer

Both are when it suits their given agenda. Both will also champion a study that has disproven many times if it suits their agenda. People on both sides of the isle don't see this because doing research and thinking for ones self are two things that politics actively discourages. Simply because people who do both end to hit a point where they see politics for the joke that it is.

Nomoturtle · Answer

I said equal, but with the left flaunting "the science" as a religious entity that they believe they have claim on through a selection of exalted experts, rather than the scientific method as a process of learning, I almost want to say the left.
At least sky-daddy is commonly understood not to be a scientific claim.

ODC2112 · Answer

In reality both, the populist sides of the camps are strongly anti-science and anti-technology because they fundamentally do not understand it.
Both sides are equally antiscience, but they are antiscience in different spheres. Right-wing people are terrified of being controlled, so they are against things like vaccines which, according to their paranoia, would control them. Leftists, on the other hand, are terrified of being poisoned. So they are against nuclear technologies, genetically modified organisms etc.

Xtcy2083 · Answer

Neither team can claim to "have science on their side". They both twist it or deny it whenever it's convenient to do so.

Kaneki05 · Answer

The right tend to believe in things without proof aka God, Vaccines have microchips, Global warming don't exist.
Left tend to agree that Global warming is a problem and exists, Vaccines are not made to control people with microchips, and the existence of god isn't true or at least remains to ever been seen.

Therefore Anti-Science would go to the right. Also most scientists themselves lean politically to the left if anything.

Kenzy009 · Answer

The Scientific Method requires applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed. The left lacks this completely. Ideas like "trust the science" sounds more like faith then science to me. If your research is valid is should withstand the critisim and be able to compete on the free market place of ideas. The left method for finding truth is censorhip of oposition and deplatfroming of contrarians. Constantly talking about "the exsperts" is an apeal to authority and an unvalid argument in my eyes

noohair · Answer

In the US, we are sliding into tribalism. This is bad. It infers that one side is right and the other side is wrong. We used to believe that opinions were valid for everyone and we respected the right to an opinion. This is gone and replaced with, my opinion is fact and you are evil.

Sabretooth · Answer

the right. they are fundamentally against education because it scares them. they are afraid of anything that challenges their views or makes them uncomfortable... it's why they are fighting so hard to stop the teaching of critical race theory... which is taught in collage... which they likely couldn't even tell you what it even is. which is not to say that the left doesn't ignore science on things like weed.

BeMuse · Answer

Lefties by far. They never research the science and just follow the hype of media propaganda... As a trained scientist it's a sad fucking sight to watch.

Jackpot7s · Answer

Well science as a whole has turned into a Satanic cult where you are not allowed to question anything but then again it is not real science so it is hard to say. The left is brainwashed worse but the right is going along with the fake covid narrative too to a point too.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

The loony lefties, of course! You can show them every bit of proof possible to back up a claim and they still won't believe you because it just doesn't fit their agenda!!

Tamera952 · Answer

Not even close at all. Clearly everyone knows the "R" in Rightwing, stands for 'RETARDED'.

HighValue · Answer

As someone that passed the CA state educator's required test on my first attempt (CSET) I can tell you that the left are more anti-science.

Grond21 · Answer

One thing I find fascinating about all this is how the women are almost universally thinking it's the right, while the men are split, but leaning towards the left

WhiteBoyChill · Answer

The left. They are all worked up about covid and vaccines when it doesn’t even really matter that much.

Staximus · Answer

Science is based on questioning everything, not based on obeying politicians and trusting companies who are soaking up tax dollars

888theGreat · Answer

I think question should be Science Fiction, and that is Democrats.

genericname85 · Answer

Both political sides are anti science. Science and politics are completely different subsystems of society. Politics abuses science for it's means. The fact that science can't exist without money makes it vulnerable.

goaded · Answer

Can't be bothered to watch something that's obviously going to be rubbish, but from the YouTube page:

"“creationism doesn't… affect the way science is done."
It just ignores most or all of biology, astronomy, geography...

"I can't find examples where the right-wing stopped the progress of science…"

Stem cell research. Global warming.

Gal67 · Answer

They're as bad as each other. Science and politics should never mix.

Shamalien · Answer

Definitely the left; they are illogical and emotional and science is the opposite

worldscolide · Answer

Neither. Both are just worong when it comes to science. One side believes in God, and feels like anyone that does not is stupid, the other side believes you can make up genders on the spot and have it actually mean something. I'm done with all of it.

jahaims · Answer

Pretty equal. Both ignore it when it is convenient for their narrative.

Anonymous · Answer

You can’t be a leftist unless you reject certain scientific truths.

doopayo · Answer

Ever since the party shift the right has always been the party of pseudoscience.

Anonymous · Answer

The left would like you to believe they are. But in actuality they both twist science to suit their agendas.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

Whoever thinks that science is objective truth or cannot be questioned is anti-science.

Juxtapose · Answer

Both sides are essentially working for rich people who don't care about the truth.

JesseJayNeak · Answer

The Right believes both in science and God. The Left, on the other hand, believed that transgender women are real women so I’d say the latter

purplepoppy · Answer

In polls like this people always say the opposition. As someone slightly to the left I'd say the far right has always been more vocally against science while the left supports the mainstream view.

Anonymous · Answer

Tell the left that boys have penises and girls have vaginas and watch their heads explode.

vald9inches · Answer

Definitely the right! They are almost on another level even to that of the flat earthers!

zagor · Answer

Anyone who puts their doctrine above reality.

Anonymous · Answer

the side I don't agree with

Still-alive · Answer

Stossel is such a hack. stop watching that idiot

NewtoTheSouth · Answer

What is your definition of "anti-science?"

emperor90 · Answer

Science is right

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