Science denialists and quacks love to abuse Koch's postulates to deny that various microorganisms are the true cause of disease; so it was inevitable (and no surprise) that they're doing it for #COVID19.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/12/18/quacks-misuse-kochs-postulates-to-deny-covid-19/ …
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It’s not just germ theory deniers, either. Creationists often seem to think that evolutionary biology ceased to advance after Darwin.https://twitter.com/Rootiiij/status/1339991972828725249 …
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I wonder: Is there another scientific field like microbiology and evolution, in which denialist cranks think that if they can find mistakes or holes in 19th century (or even earlier) science the will discredit the entire field?
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D'oh! How could I have forgotten? How could I have failed to mention cancer research, given how there are people who think that the trophoblastic theory of cancer is still a thing? (It was abandoned nearly 100 years ago.)
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Then there's "autointoxication" theory, the idea that disease is caused by "self-toxicity" resulting from a backup of feces in the colon? 120 years ago, surgeons removed colons and dentists pulled all the teeth to "cure" mental illness...
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“Fallacy.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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Meanwhile, they play the lamest game in the book when it’s pointed out that they came back up what they say.
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i love how they generally use 300 years old scientific theories that evolved or got debunked as their own stand and valid point to argue against modern science... it's almost as they can't find anything that is actual recent to support their bs
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Similar, but not identical, to the fetish for the 1828 Webster dictionary, or Aristotilian logic (in contrast to that developed beginning w/ Frege).
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I think it’s because the 19th century was the last time they really agreed with science and/or understood how things worked.
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