Mike Adams (of NaturalNews), Monsanto, Nazis, and a Very Disturbing Article

[mike_c]

8. that sort of rhetoric is part of a broader anti-science movement....

The internet has greatly advanced the various science denier movements. On the one hand, people doing shoddy, agenda driven "research" are finding, and creating, pay-to-publish print and online journals that give an appearance of legitimacy to their claims, which are then immediately trumpeted as "proofs" of science denier positions by the anti-science movement generally. Lately these "developments" are monitored closely by the lay press, which often parrots them as "science," when in fact they're the polar opposite of good science. Widespread scientific illiteracy among their readership makes science denial even easier. We've seen this recently with, for example, the Seralini BS.

On the other hand, this creates a climate of science denial that supports-- and arguably even needs-- rhetoric like you've posted. Over the top hyperbole without rational intellectual boundaries, the more strident and angry the better. It plays well to the outraged passion of the anti-science movement who see themselves as Davids opposing the Goliaths of universities and businesses conducting and commercializing scientific research. Like conservatism generally, it becomes an essentially political game of entrenching opposing "sides," with actual objective truth completely discounted as beside the point, especially when it contradicts the science denial movement's biases.