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Two tactics effectively limit the spread of science denialism
- blargmaster33 7y agoPlease do not conflate anti-vax and beeing critical about global warming/cooling/"flavor of the week".
- dragonwriter 7y agoGlobal cooling was a fringe theory that got a lot to popular media attention (at a time when global warming was already established); anti-vax and climate denialism are very much the same, mixtures of bad/pseudo-science with ideology which finds the actual science inconvenient.
- tomohawk 7y agoConsider Einstein. At the time his theories were made public, he was some German guy, and it was around WWI, so there was not much interest in hearing from him. There was a lot of hate towards Germans. But, since the theory was interesting, and they did a test which showed his theory could predict physical phenomena, it became accepted and so did he. This is science. It's not science if it is not falsifiable.