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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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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Climatology- top of list. Medicine (cancer research), but you know this one very well. Finance & monetary policy (gLibertarians). Water purification (fluoride). Epidemiology (vaccines). You'd be hard-pressed to pick a field where cranks don't think they know more than experts.
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D'oh! 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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I can only assume some flat earther has tried prove Eratosthenes wrong.
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palentology and geology
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Yep. Archeology. And cultural anthropology. And comparative mythology.....I can go on. However, they do not lead to inevitable death and misery.
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