Certainly, though it was mostly ignored by major political parties in those days. And WRT EamonnMR's point, while the article invokes 'antiscience' as a moveme

Certainly, though it was mostly ignored by major political parties in those days. And WRT EamonnMR's point, while the article invokes 'antiscience' as a movement, its author is clearly only interested in medical science. Personally, I'm not convinced that there is a unitary, consolidated anti-science movement, though it might be developing.