I don’t oppose ridiculing conspiracy theories, particularly when they deserve it. However, I’m with @MarkHoofnagle. Where were all you rationalists when the conspiracy theory that is climate science denial took over @GOP? Or during the last five years, when antivax did the same?https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1304567255372570625 …
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And conspiracy theories to justify lies about evolution, abortion, public health, contraception, condoms and spread of HIV, homosexuality, I mean, there's too many to list. They've increasingly been the conspiracy theory party since Reagan, and accelerating with Gingrich and CWA.
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Yup.
@RadioFreeTom is incredibly naive about conspiracy theories. When it comes to conspiracy theories,@GOP fear surpasses@TheDemocrats. It’s not even close. At worst, Dems have anti-GMO and some antivax, but@GOP long ago surpassed them in antivax.2 replies 3 retweets 28 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle and
First, "I don't believe climate science" isn't a conspiracy theory, it's ignorance. As is being an anti-vaxxer. "Hillary Clinton drinks baby blood" in a different league. But as usual, "I must make this about my preferred politics" overwhelms everything else.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @MarkHoofnagle and
Except that Mark is correct. All science denialism IS rooted in conspiracy theories. How many of would you like me to list for climate science denial Ana antivax? It’ll be a LONG Twitter thread.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @MarkHoofnagle and
That’s nice, but it doesn’t change that, for example, the antivaccine movement is at its heart a conspiracy theory that posits that “they” (CDC, medicine, pharma, government, etc.) “knew” that vaccines cause autism/are dangerous/are ineffective/etc. but covered it up.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle and
I'm rolling my eyes because this is liberal Twitter thing: "I agree with your point, so now let me expand your point to include Ronald Reagan and the GOP in 1952." Anti-vaxxers are conspiracy types, I agree. But not everyone who denies science is about conspiracy theories. /1
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Motivated reasoning is behind a lot of it. "If I believe X, I will have to do something I don't like. So therefore I will disbelieve X and all things that could possibly lead to having to believe X." This is why people think MDs don't understand diets: Because they won't diet. /2
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And then they start gravitating towards conspiracy theories to justify it: Doctors don’t understand nutrition because big pharma doesn’t want them to because using food threatens profits.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle and
They reject anything that would make them not eat a cheeseburger. That's human beings, not any one political party.
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