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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What you’re doing is akin to likening disagreement over, for example, which specific vaccines are safe and effective enough and beneficial to a broad enough swath of the population to be included in the CDC become schedule to the antivax claim that vaccines do more harm than good
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I know plenty of people who deny climate science purely because they don't want to open the door to climate solutions that would be unpleasant to them. They're not conspiracy theorists; really, they're not even science-deniers. They're just stubborn and dumb.
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And you're conflating the motivated reasoning behind science denial - which is a pretty basic and simple problem - with conspiracy theories. One is just stubbornness, the other is a worldview.
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