I tend to lean to the left side of the political spectrum, but two threads of liberal thought piss me off more than just about anything:
If you are so scientific minded, you should have realized that there are more dimensions than one to describe your political view. If you just go one dimension up than "left" and "liberal" are two different directions (at least if "left"/"right" is your economical opinion). Moreover, this has nothing to do with "liberal".
Is it difficult to make your argument without relying on general support for your political point of view?
anti nuke environmentalists and autism/vaccine linkers.
Now you lost all your credibility. What does "anti nuke environmentalists" have to do with it? How are they the same as "autism/vaccine linkers"?
Both group are as bad as any anti science fundamentalist
Anti science? I know the Physics behind nuclear energy pretty well (some years of university helped, but were not necessary) and I understand that modern reactors may be pretty save, maybe better if compared with some alternatives like climate change due to CO2 pollution.
Anyhow, being skeptical about our capability to deal with the nuclear waste for the time it poses a thread to the environment is anti scientific where? Here in Germany, there is no place for final storage of waste, yet, because many experiments failed. There are waste amounts of money being spend cleaning a salt dome because it eventually leaked. Money that is never added to the price of nuclear energy.
Being skeptical about the ability of companies maximizing profit to use the full security potential of modern reactors is anti scientific in which way? There have been so many reports of nuclear accidents that were swept under the rug -- or could-have-been accidents because of safety procedures not followed due to profit reasons. Being skeptical about our Governments to act in a way to change that is anti scientific? I guess there is much more evidence to back up these fears than evidence that we have working regulations.
I can understand why people see nuclear power saving us, but being of another opinion has nothing to do with "don't mess with mother nature".