Blank-slate socialism already killed about 100m people in the 20th century.
By the same logic, trait heritability denial should be a crime. Ignoring genetic confounds in social science research should be a crime. No they shouldn't. People should be free to deny whatever science they want, however misguided they may be. You can't legislate the truth.https://twitter.com/campbellclaret/status/1022902558120128513 …
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Several crimes “legislate the truth”—fraud, perjury, obstruction, and false statements are examples. To the extent it’s covered by such laws, some science denialism (e.g., Philip Morris’s) is probably already criminal; it’s merely by convention that it isn’t prosecuted as such.
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None of those laws legislate a specific empirical truth.
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This really gets to the heart of what is wrong with politics. People really do want to force others to believe what they believe. This is why theocratic states have been so dominant in world history. Folks just have to see their morals reflected in the laws of the land.
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What about holocaust denial? I think Campbell was making the point that climate change denial is a similar kettle of fish to the former, wherein actual, widely known facts dispute any bogus denials, and the bogus denials are often to cause harm.
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Holocaust denial shouldn’t be a crime either.
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Climate Change is basically a new religion.
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