I've written a lot about this over the years, about narratives that undermine science. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385540971 … https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/this-is-your-brain-on-gluten/282550/ … https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/the-food-babe-enemy-of-chemicals/385301/ … https://www.thedailybeast.com/doctors-hate-him-the-one-weird-trick-that-gave-us-president-trump …https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/the-next-gluten/523686/ …
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Soooo true
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Thanks for pointing this out.
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Branding only serves to obscure facts and observations which are the basis of science. Lumping all people who question reason for climate changes as climate change deniers is one example. Calling people who call for more complete testing of vaccines and less -anti vaxxers,another
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Unfortunately complex things that involve multiple systems interacting attract this kind of thing. The irrationally rational pretend to know for sure things they can't know. If the rational were more accepting of uncertainty they wouldn't fuel their "enemies."
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Great point - undermines credibility to make claims beyond evidence
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Scientific research is negotiable, based on the right circumstances. A wide range of scientific research has been subsequently been disproven, based on further research. In addition, some substantially similar scientific research has yielded significantly different results.
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