There is an obvious demographic thread that connects anti-science groups in food, in medicine, in research and pharmacy too, but most science media pundits are incapable of seeing it or flat out deny it.

Yet it is hard to deny.  Meanwhile, every science media outlet publishes articles claiming the entire Republican party must be anti-science because more of them deny global warming and slightly more Republicans than Democrats deny evolution.

The anti-biology movement among the left, Jon Entine notes, is "enabled by advocacy NGOs and campaigning journalists who, ironically, took the lead in debunking the pseudo-science of the right."

How do you turn political science, economics or surveys of college undergraduates into science?  You claim scientists are mean to people and not liberal and tolerant at all unless they agree with what you say next and then set out to redefine science so that just about anything can qualify.

Anyone thinking on this for a moment can deduce there are going to get two reasons to do so, and they apply to almost anything: money and politics.

Writing in USA Today, Dr. Alex Berezow and I dissect the recent efforts to insist the social sciences and the humanities are part of the science continuum, and therefore should have the same legitimacy conferred on them, despite the fact that we all know society is not a laboratory,

A parasite that caused bees to lurch around like, well, zombies, and fly at night until they die has been found in Washington State.
 
Colony Collapse Disorder, in which all the adult honey bees in a colony suddenly die, has already been causing bee populations to drop. Such zombies were first discovered in California in 2008 by San Francisco State University biologist John Hafernik who now runs a website ZombeeWatch.org that is aided by a network of citizen scientists to help determine how widespread the parasite is and whether it is contributing to the demise of bee colonies across the country.

The XM25 Counter-Defilade Target Engagement System is not new. The 1970s myth of military contractors throwing rubbish out there for high costs (well, mostly myth - just like the myth that NASA put a man on the moon, when military contractors did) is just a myth. The military is exceedingly slow to approve anything these days and so XM25 "Punisher" has been looked at for 10 years. 

Farmers and activists from all over the continent converged on European Union headquarters in Brusssels to push for a food policy that is fairer to family farmers and kinder to the environment and developing nations.

Meanwhile, the deny what has gotten them all to this point; science. 

At the European Parliament in Brussels, a reform of the costly pan-EU farm system is being discussed. And everyone has their hand in the pie, people selling stuff in the Slow Food movement to the Friends of the Earth environmental group.

The date for solving 'cold cases', those unsolved murders from the past, has just been pushed back a little farther.  72-year-old Jack McCullough has been found guilty <edit after a DNA breakthrough placed him at the scene of the abduction of seven-year-old Maria Ridulph in 1957.

McCullough, 18 at the time, was initially considered a suspect but was out thanks to an alibi, which turns out to have been fabricated. Maria's remains were exhumed from her grave in July 2011 so that modern-day forensic scientists could try to find DNA evidence to implicate McCullough that could not be detected in 1958. 

In 2012, you'd have to be crazy to get into the cereal business. The start-up costs are high, margins are low and competitors are gigantic. 

Food scientist Mike Abrams and business partner Chuck Mason think they can make a go of it because they have an edge; caffeine. Cappuccino Crunch is toasted rice flour cereal made with coffee.

Can they market that to kids?  Why not? The Starbucks closest to my office is near both an Intel site and a high school and which do you think has more representation in there?  That's right, the high school.

Did you know evolution was 'in crisis?' Neither did I, but Jason Rosenhouse at Scienceblogs is on the case, this time debunking a somewhat sing-songy phrase by philosopher of science John Dupre.

Science Left Behind is out tomorrow and there is no question it will be fighting an uphill battle in the science community.  Obviously a book that makes fun of anti-science progressives isn't going to be for progressives and it isn't for Republicans during election season, since Democrats get scant mention.