Viewpoint: House Democrats’ ‘glyphosate-is-dangerous’ report shows liberals can be science deniers too

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The discussions around agricultural technologies, especially herbicides, are nuanced and complex.  So if someone gets the basic information completely wrong, why would you trust them?

Such is the case of a Minority Staff Report prepared for congressional members of the Committee for Science, Space and Technology. That’s right, these are the same folks that extol the realities of anthropogenic climate change, now “preparing” a document that has activist fingerprints all over it.

[Editor’s note: See the report here]

It is a lot of the same-old same-old conspiracy nonsense– that herbicide science is a corporate scam where regulators are paid dupes and all of the scientists in the world are corporate liars. The scientists that make D.O.A. claims that are not supported by good science are not described as inept or soft, instead they are heroes, slienced by a well-organized corporate machine.

Ironically the whole document is activist spin, and the only scientists silenced are the ones they never bothered to interview– actual scientists that know stuff. The whole thing is embarassing, and shows how anti-farming activists attempt to influence policy with fabrications and distortions– the exact tactics they claim of others. It also shows that science denial runs on both sides of the aisle.

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