When it comes to denying science, California leads America, and sometimes the world. In early 2020, for example, when the President of the US said to cut travel from China due to SARS-CoV-2, Governor Newsom said he was xenophobic and racist and that since the World Health Organisation denied it was a pandemic, he was opposed to science also.Credit: Hank CampbellPrior to that it was a state where we had to hammer the legislature for 10 straight years to eliminate arbitrary exemptions from vaccines, because California schools on the coast had more unvaccinated kids than the rest of the US combined. Prior to that, they tried to ban modern agriculture, along with Happy Meals and Golf.People 'east of the 5', as we say to note the demarcation line from Jenny McCarthy Acolytes to sane people who don't think Whole Foods produce is grown without pesticides, got most anti-science efforts kicked to the curb at the state level, but one county did ban modern agriculture.