“Pseudoskepticism” and “pseudoskeptics” are terms often misused by those who want to defend woo to describe skepticism and skeptics.
https://twitter.com/MitchHorowitz/status/1321094702985285632 …
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Let’s just put it this way. Homeopaths like to compare skepticism to religion in order to dismiss it. So do antivaxxers, quacks, climate science deniers, creationists, 9/11 Truthers, and cranks and denialists of all varieties. Using that language without nuance is NOT a good look
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I take your general point. Have you objected to their embrace of the term “Guerrilla”?
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Dr Gorski, please explain why you deem Rupert Sheldrake (a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, who has previously worked in biochemistry and cell biology with funding from the Royal Society Rosenheim Research Fellowship) to not be a 'legitimate" researcher or "actual expert"?
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@CoyneoftheRealm start, as won't have time to be on Twitter again for at least a couple of hours.https://newrepublic.com/article/115533/rupert-sheldrake-fools-bbc-deepak-chopra … - Show replies
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