"Anti-vaccination" has now fully replaced "creationism" as the go-to example of a position that is contrary to scientific consensus. I understand how it happened, but it's not a good shift, since the two positions, while inaccurate, emerge from very different cognitive errors.
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Well, like I said, too much for a Twitter thread! And as you both know I'm a fan of highlighting similarities between different forms of faulty thinking. It's just...the errors really are quite different. For one, visceral fear of physical harm isn't part of creationism.
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The visceral fear of physical harm, though, is a consequence of their error in thinking, not the cause.
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