I bet our President fell for a protester jokingly wondering where her Soros check is, the way antivaxers and quacks sometimes don't get the joke when I quip, "Where's my filthy lucre, big pharma paymasters?" That's why these days I usually add a crack about Lizard Overlords too.https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/1049681442731642882 …
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Replying to @gorskon
no, he's using the antisemitic meme because he's fine with antisemitism.
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Replying to @DrZackaryBerger
Antivax and quackery not infrequently overlap with antisemitic conspiracy theories. In the minds of a lot of antivaxers, who do you think runs big pharma?
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Replying to @gorskon
A lot of antisemitic theoritizing has been based in quite orthodox science.
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Replying to @DrZackaryBerger
Irrelevant to my point, and I never said that it didn't. If also doesn't change the fact that Trump supporters are prone to multiple conspiracy theories, including antisemitic ones and antivax ones.
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Replying to @gorskon
I think that's true. There's also a way in which Trump supporters line up with quite establishment ways of thinking. There are Trumpers in our medical centers and our laboratories. Trumpism iow does not imply antiscientism.
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Replying to @DrZackaryBerger
Working in a medical center or lab does NOT mean one isn't antiscience with respect to something. There are an unfortunately high number of antivaccine nurses and creationist doctors. There are a lot of climate science denialists there. That's antiscience.
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Replying to @gorskon
Scratch a Trumpist, and you'll almost always find antiscience of some sort, be it climate science denial, creationism, antivax, or other conspiracy theory.
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Replying to @gorskon
The problem with equating anti-scientism and Trumpism, is that Trumpism is motivated by ideologies which have *also* motivated much science.
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Oh bloody hell. I said they frequently overlap. And they do.
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