“Similarly, deniers perceive the spectrum of scientific agreement as divided into two unequal parts: perfect consensus and no consensus at all...” http://theconversation.com/the-thinking-error-at-the-root-of-science-denial-96099?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton …
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Exactly. Besides conspiracy theories, there’s almost always this false dichotomy at the heart of science denial.
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I like to characterize the thinking of science denialists this way: Is science doesn’t know everything, it doesn’t know anything. That’s so fallacious on so many levels, but theyreally do think that way.
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Just look at
@billmaher. At the end of his interview with@JayGordonMDFAAP, in which both laid down antivax tropes, he said (to paraphrase) he’d only trust science and medicine when they could tell him with absolute certainty what causes cancer and how to cure it.Show this thread
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