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.
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Usually evidence of “bad science” is used to argue “see the scientists are hiding stuff”. Seems to always come back to the conspiracy
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Replying to @auscandoc @lotusctr
Exactly. Science deniers ALWAYS need a reason to explain why science rejects their ideas and “challenges” to scientific theory. That reason will ALWAYS involve one or more conspiracy theories. Always.
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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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... that's different than a conspiracy theory that nutraceutical companies are evil or something and lie just to make money because Bill Gates owns it and wants to control the world... Because both results are the same, but recognizing bias to me is legit science.
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Oops .. should have given you a chance to finish. Sorry. Certainly recognizing bias is legit.. confirmation bias maybe but I’m unable to think of COVID denial themes (PCR false positive, they died with not of COVID, anti-mask, antivax etc) that are legit science “arguments”.
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All of them involve conspiracy theories. All of them.
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