Anti-science views in the left

[TheLeftwardTide]

Anti-GMO is one thing I can think of, although the issue is much more nuanced than one may think.
cough cough dead0man

That said, the anti-GMO movement on the left is somewhat overstated, I mean, Bill Nye was originally against GMOs but came around and admitted fault (and this was a while ago, too).

The anti-vax movement also once held ground with some of the nuts on the left, but this issue is now more associated with the right; Donald Trump is an anti-vaxxer, while there are no power-holding left-wing politicians that are anti-vaxxers.

The ultra-authoritarian far left, i.e. Mao and Stalin, were quite anti-science.

Despite all of this, I would say that anti-science views are, objectively speaking, much less common on the left than on the right.

[TheLeftwardTide]

*snippity snip*

The correlation with political views isn't that strong since Idaho and some other Republican western states are high and NY and RI are low.

You hit the nail on the head.

Using the map provided by DC Al Fine, along with every state's PVI, I made a little graph to try to scientifically determine whether or not there is actually any correlation:

Sure, the """correlation""" is positive, but this """correlation""" essentially doesn't exist. An R^2 value of <0.02 is pitiful, and shows that the function in question - in this case, Unvaccination Rates vs. State PVI - has almost (or, ignoring technicalities, essentially) zero correlation.

It seems as if it's the right, i.e. DC Al Fine and dead0man, are the ones who are anti-science, defying basic math straight in the face.