The OP doesn't make bad points to start out with.
But it increasingly goes off the rails as time goes on. For instance, it asks where the casualties are in a war against science.
Not the worst thing to be asking, but defunding, ignoring, and using politics to erase information isn't really going to leave a bodycount.
It then goes on to accuse leftists of hurting science. Again, where are the casualties then?
Finally, it goes on to define leftists in a laughable way:
The OP wrote:Leftists have much more confidence in experts and the state. Engels argued for “scientific socialism,” a redesign of society supposedly based on the scientific method. Communist intellectuals planned to mold the New Soviet Man
Wait, the same people the article (rightly) lampoons for being against GMOs when there is no credible scientific information against them are communists?
And "scientific socialism," isn't at all what this author imagines it to be. It's a socialism based upon the material world and how it moves. This was opposed to precious socialists that
based themselves on abstract ideas. This itself goes back to the attempt to find unifying theories throughout the 19th century that are a lot less interesting than the idea of a laboratory full of cackling leftists plotting to use science against you..
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