Well Beet thanks you Adam, an easy win for blue Beet.
..but I want to play too.
What part of the GMO fearmongering got to you? Please say "because monocultures are bad", I don't think we've done that one here yet (or if we have, not very good). If it's just the one Crabby likes (we just don't know, more study needs to be done, ya can't be too safe!) save your breath and search through past threads.
This is an important point.
Left wingers frequently criticize the right for being anti-intellectual and they're often right. However, when the right points out similar issues on the left, we're often met with a bunch of special pleading. It's rather irritating. At least the fundamentalist creationist doesn't hold himself up as a supporter of the secular academy while opposing it.
Some examples of this of varying popularity with progressives include the existence of Jesus, the relationship between science and religion historically (e.g. the Galileo affair), and GMO's.
Oh yeah, all sorts of conspiracy theories about early Christianity are considered credible by a large number of people. People say that Jesus was married and had kids, that Paul fundamentally changed Christian doctrine. and that Constantine changed Christian doctrine as well. I've heard people say that Christianity wasn't a religion until Constantine. This is Lost Cause level bad history.
