It's really not fashionable to call out liberals for their own problematic relationship with science on certain issues. (Trust me on that one.) It's much safer to just blast away at conservatives, who do provide bountiful material on evolution and sex, among other well-known topics, as Michael Shermer reminds us at Scientific American. But kudos to him for some straight talk here:
Whereas conservatives obsess over the purity and sanctity of sex, the left's sacred values seem fixated on the environment, leading to an almost religious fervor over the purity and sanctity of air, water and especially food. Try having a conversation with a liberal progressive about GMOs—genetically modified organisms—in which the words “Monsanto” and “profit” are not dropped like syllogistic bombs.
Those conversations never go well for me, either. I've also had lousy luck talking with liberal parents in my Brooklyn neighborhood about the safety of vaccines. Along those ...
