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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by serge2k on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:10PM (#13476677)
What myth?

Until the right stops rejecting science and promoting lies (cough crowd size cough) that saying is pretty much true.

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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by jcranmer on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:58PM (#13477038)
The left is equally guilty of being anti-science when it suits them. The anti-vaxxer and anti-GMO crowds tend to be predominantly left-wing, for example.
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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by st3v3r on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:07PM (#13477096)
Anti-vaxxers are a fringe element of the left. Climate deniers are the mainstay of the right. Do not falsely equivalate the two.
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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by jcranmer on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:35PM (#13477281)
Anti-GMO is most certainly not fringe, particularly not in Europe where it's as mainstream a position as climate change denial is in the US, and just as dismissive of science.
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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by tacomonstrous on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:03PM (#13477455)
In the US, though, it's most definitely fringe, and that's what's pertinent to the discussion in this thread.
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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by jack9 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:39PM (#13478578)
Without context, fringe has no meaning, that is what's pertinent. It's about as popular as Scientology (anti-GMO seems to be about twice the anti-vax).
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