Ah, yes. This is why I laugh when a member of @AAPSonline claims that the organization is not antivax. One wonders if the complain as loudly about government attempts to limit what doctors can say to patients and study about gun violence.https://twitter.com/jorient/status/1106278606592892928 …
Consensus is the enemy of science. Particularly a fake consensus, What about the consensus on Ptolemy, or spontaneous generation, or bad air as the cause of malaria, etc.
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Could you possibly be more obtuse? Are you trying to say that only outliers can be correct? What if that outlier position becomes the concesus? The longer an outlier remains an outlier the more “right” they are?
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What’s next? “They laughed at Galileo too”?
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So dumb.
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So if someone was to say bad air was the cause of malaria, how would you refute them- perhaps by appealing to the scientific consensus on germ theory?
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It was a big fight to get people to look at the evidence that was contrary to the consensus of the time. Just like people today have religious dedication to the holy CDC vaccine schedule--any harm is a "coincidence."
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I think 99% of philosophers of science would disagree violently with your characterization of science as some sort of historic fallacy. This is the worst thing I have seen in ages and that includes some real doozies. Best just stop and read some books on it. Any HPS books.
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Contrarianism alone does not supersede consensus either. Balance of evidence most definitely and unequivocally FAVORS vaccination. Yours is a Fallacy of Faulty Generalization. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization … (Only extremely infrequently does the contrarian/crank turn out to be correct.)
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