Originally Posted by Frownland

Well, that happens on both sides too. American liberals tend to love a lot of the new age anti-science stances like anti-GMO, anti-vaxx, pro-complementary and alternative medicines (I have a trillion and a half science based articles on this aspect of bullshit that delves into both the falsity of it and psychological theory behind it's proponents if anyone's interested), pro-naturalism, and against everything that even sounds like the M(onsanto) word.

American conservatives tend to have more traditional anti-science beliefs (well, except for maybe vaccination, which they rightly tend to be in favour of) like the denial of global warming, evolution, and the fact that humans occasionally get horny enough to **** as a way to directly spit in the face of the almighty blame shifter.