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.
None of those laws legislate a specific empirical truth.
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Indeed they don’t; just general empirical truth. But that doesn’t seem to provide any support for the sweeping conceptual claim you made.
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