In case @MrMaitra doesn't believe me, here are a couple of examples. In one example, antivaxer Ginger Taylor even coined a term "Vaccinianity," which she defined as the worship of vaccination. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2008/07/09/a-friendly-word-of-advice-from-orac/ …
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Here, Liam Scheff also compared vaccination to religion and religious rituals. 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/12/01/quoth-the-antivaxer-vaccination-is-a-religion-quoth-orac-nice-projection-there/ …
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Indeed, comparing vaccination to a religion in order to dismiss the science is a very common theme on antivaccine websites and in antivaccine rhetoric, complete with doctors as priests in white coats. 4/
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In fact, it's a very common tactic of cranks who deny science (like
@MrMaitra) to try to dismiss the established science they are denying by calling it a religion and mocking it. 5/Show this thread -
In fact, some particularly vile people do the same thing in pseudohistory. Yes, Holocaust deniers like to refer to "Holocaustianity," which they define as a religion created by the Jews for gentile consumption. (I don't link to Holocaust denier sites; so here's a screenshot.) 6/pic.twitter.com/abehGiIRVK
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Whenever you see someone comparing well-established science to a religion in order to dismiss it as just another belief system rather than conclusions based on huge quantities of evidence, you're looking at a denialist who uses this trope because science isn't on his side. 7/7
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Why are right-wingers and libertarians (but I repeat myself) so obsessed with sexualizing children/teens? It's so creepy.
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