re: #13 EPR-radar
They hate science and the whole line of thinking that leads to it (i.e., the philosophical enlightenment) with the fury of thousand suns.
Gore is merely an excuse, IMO.
Exactly.
A lot of these people have grown up in environments where science is evil because Darwin and Einstein are somehow the heralds of Satan and critical thinking is bad. They’re going to reject anything science related on principle. Al Gore is just a convenient scapegoat.