More, you think there's a hidden political agenda in a piece about fictional politics in which the author went to some length to state that both sides are guilty of motivated reasoning

Often a claim that two sides are on par with each other is

1) false, and 2) a tactic used by partisans.

http://dailyanarchist.com/2011/04/15/allopathy-versus-homeopathy/ : "Most people are unaware of the silent warfare that has been waged between two distinctly different philosophies in the field of medicine.... The anarchist community would be served well to learn the differences between these two medical approaches to health care... The debate between allopathy and homeopathy seems worthy in a marketplace of ideas... "