Basically, shaming individuals rarely works and just results in anger. Shaming INSTITUTIONS can definitely work and is appropriate when, for example, a professional society fails so badly as to invite a quack like Deepak Chopra to keynote its yearly meeting.
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I can't believe this quack charges 75 grand to talk to organizations, and that they pay it!
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IKR? I'm in the wrong business. Don't get me wrong. I'm quite comfortable and appreciate how fortunate I am, but the alt-med grift is very lucrative and I could be rich, like Joe Mercola, who's worth over $100 million. Who knows how much Chopra is worth?
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Good. Science needs to be louder
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Silencing charlatans and snake oil merchants is not "cancel culture" - it's protecting susceptible people from harm and from being exploited.
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Fantastic! Democracy still functions.
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If they want to get their "message heard" they can organize their own snake oil conventions.
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