The Anti-Science Left Keeps On Keeping On

Photo Credit: RedStateThe left often calls conservatives “anti-science.” This is simply a demonstration of the psychological phenomenon of transference when a person attributes their own feelings to another. A great example of this, also from the left, is their insistence on accusing their opponents of racism while being utterly racist themselves. It is the left that does not believe life begins at conception. The left continually harangues against GMO crops which prevent massive starvation. The left seems to think that electric cars are environmentally sound despite the fact that electricity has to be generated and the batteries used in these cars creates toxic by products. The left still buys into Rachel Carlson’s fradulent “Silent Spring” even though their campaign against pesticides has killed millions of people via malaria.

There is perhaps no subject shows the left’s aversion to science than the continual public presence of Paul Ehrlich, left wing professor and unrepentant crank.

Ehrlich burst into the public consciousness in 1968 with the Population Bomb, a book that quickly became the left’s equivalent of the Apocalypse of Saint John. The book is little more than a crudely worked modernization of the theories of Thomas Malthus. For instance:

The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate..