It's always worth emphasizing: Science deniers ALWAYS need a conspiracy theory to explain why science rejects their preferred “alternative” ideas. Science denial is thus ALWAYS rooted in conspiracy theories. Always.
Basically, any time someone has tried to show me a form of science denial that they claim doesn’t involve a conspiracy theory, either it turns out not really to have been science denial, or I could find a conspiracy theory behind it.
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To clarify, you do differentiate between science denial and challenging a finding based on bias or poor methodology correct? Bias and conspiracy theory can easily be conflated...
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... For example, if a company claims a patented herbal formulation they sell cures metastatic melanoma based on a study they funded but the methodology otherwise seemed standard, I can say that I don't believe it due to the high risk of bias, rather than the methodology itself...
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