Evolution deniers do this too. You have to be careful what you call "settled science." In evolution, for instance, is settled science that the diversity of life and speciation are a result of science by natural selection and other mechanisms. 1/https://twitter.com/terrysimpson/status/1114922012034490368 …
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Evolution deniers are very good at seizing on controversies at the cutting edge of evolutionary biology to misrepresent them as casting doubt on the core theory of evolution. 3/
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Indeed, science deniers in general are good at misrepresenting controversies on the cutting edge of the science they deny as somehow caring doubt on the well-supported core theory when they don't. 4/
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Climate science deniers do the same thing. While the science is settled that human-produced CO2 is warming the planet, there's still, for example, debate over how much and how fast these changes in our climate are occurring. 5/
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Climate science deniers, predictably, seize on these debates to claim that the "science isn't settled" that human-produced CO2 is causing catastrophic warming, when, in fact, it is. 6/
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This is why I rarely use the term "settled science" any more. Instead I say something like "scientific conclusions supported by mountains of evidence." 7/7
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