#Scientific denialism

[theexodvs]

Given the (warranted) suspicion given towards the disease denialism found in both Christian Science and Scientology, it can be said that if the claims of the neurodiversity movement were attached to organized religion, they too would be constantly lambasted.

#Christian Science #scientology #church of Christ scientist #Mary Baker Eddy #l ron hubbard #church of scientology #neurodiversity #neurodiversity movement #Just because a movement does not claim to be religious does not mean it isn’t cultic. #Scientific denialism #Denialism #autism is an illness #ADHD is an illness #Dyslexia is an illness #Down syndrome is an illness #Schizophrenia is an illness #Not all victims of a given illness will have an equally easy or difficult time #Not all illnesses have viral or environmental postnatal causes #I know most of the conditions the ND crowd champions are inborn #That still doesn’t mean they aren’t illnesses

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 146

So. Dan is a combination of both Danny and Vlad. Which he has never had an issue with before, but this is just frustrating. It’s not like he can’t deal with the fact the combination of the obsessions forms a protect family one, and he can deal with it. It’s not like he has one anymore. 

Which is where the gobsmacked annoyance came from- he was planning on destroying his sort-of past-self, showing this was inevitable. But his obsession, apparently like his old man, decided instead to latch onto the kid, definitely not helped by the fact the brat is like two years dead. If that, he can’t recall, all his ghostliness knows is that the brat is a fucking baby. 

He was going to destroy him, he swore! That had been the plan! So how the fuck did he get to helping the brat and the brat’s Jazz packing bags to run away? How the fuck is he responsible parent material, because he is damn sure he definitely isn’t. 

Damnit. He’s taking this half-grown clone daughter too. Fuck Vlad, he can rot in that thermos and the Fentons can stay trying to figure out why the portal is no longer working. Being the responsible one sucks though, he’d rather go back to destroying the world but killing the league a second time also sounds like too much work right now. Damnit again. 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #dad dan #Dan has acquired three sibling-children #At some point he’s going to be spotted by a time travelling hero who was sent back to stop him #Bad News: he was seen with the brats #Good News: the heroes now think he went evil after something happened to said brats #In Other News: they’re all committing to the bit #Dan has no clue how to raise teens or children or babies but he’s trying #Also he Will kill or maim if someone threatens any of these three #His Obsession really latched on hard- almost like he wasn’t able to fulfill it & it was driving him mad #Danny still calls & videos his friends & sends them gifts from all the places they’ve been #I think Dan should have a sun core for the poetic & scientific reasons #Jordan is in denial that He Is Dad Now

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Evolution is a fact, not a theory. It really happened, and the fossil record and the molecular biology all confirm it. And yet, in this country, the United States, which is the leading scientific country in the world, we have people who are not only ignorant of science, but who are actively hostile to it and to the scientific method. And that is a serious problem, because science is not just a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. It's a way o skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine undersanding of human fallibility." -- Carl Sagan

#Carl Sagan #evolution #theory of evolution #evolution is a fact #science #human fallibility #scientific method #what science is #fossil record #molecular biology #evolution deniers #evolution denial #religion is a mental illness

[moodr1ng]

"this social psychology experiment proves humans are inherently cruel and domineering!" "no this other social psychology experiment proves humans are inherently kind and cooperative!" everyone learn that singular experiments cannot be taken as conclusive proof of anything + consider that perhaps literally no amount of social psychology studies will ever "prove" any kind of inherent, all-encompassing moral truth about all of humanity and will only ever be an example of possible group conduct in certain conditions, in a certain culture and time, among certain people

#97 #sorry for the occasional random complaining about psych experiments #but truly theyre soooo irritating #bc theyre flashy and kinda fun to learn about so people know abt them quite a bit #but theyre never presented with like. #the necessary understanding of the scientific method or proper balancing of their claims to qualify what exactly they supposedly show. #so instead people are just encouraged to draw the simplest conclusions. #often misanthropic ones bc of how badly done many of these so-called experiments are (and i do not recognize many of these as experiments #due to the lack of application of the scientific method eg researcher intervention lack of control group etc) #(and not being reproducible quite often as well) #(imo shit like for example most infamous stanford prison experiment but also many others are just demonstrations.) #(not a scientific experiment. did not involve the scientific method. just some guy doing ethical misconduct in a basement.) #not hating on psych research as a field btw i literally would like to do psych research #however the way cherrypicked flashy and impressive or shocking isolated experiments are placed front and center in the popular understandin #of psych imo just misinforms the public greatly and often about like. yknow stuff you probably dont want to ingrain into people? #like. for example if you want to talk about the way perceived authority can lead many people to commit acts they morally dont agree with? #yes the milgram experiment is like a good thing to learn about imo. #however that experiment is like.. almost coupled in the popular consciousness w again the stanford prison scientific mishandling #and its conclusion is broadened to 'if given the chance all people will brutalize and abuse other people' #when the kindest possible interpretation of that mess is that if you take milgrams experiment but the researchers are in denial that #they are also inducing obedience to authority and also theyre using real people as the abused subject instead of an actor #and also every subject selected is a college aged white man whos interested in prison environments #then yes it turns pretty fucking bad. #but its not about the nature of humanity. its about an event of that obedience to authority leading some very specific subjects #who are not representative of the general population whatsoever #into behaviors which should never have been allowed to take place in an ethical research environment

[catmint1]

Alexander von Humboldt… observed that there are three stages in scientific discovery: first, people deny that it is true; then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

—Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

#quotes #bill bryson #a short history of nearly everything #science humor #alexander von humboldt #scientific discovery #denial #misidentify #the wrong person #text

[aftonrobotiics]

new year new william. leaning into the mad scientist vibe. it's what he deserves.

#//an explanation: i was listening to weird science by oi.ngo boingo and you should too its a good song #//after elizabeth and evans deaths he throws himself into his work with a smile on his face and blood on his hands #//and refuses to give into his grief because Theyre Not Dead :) #//denial leads to murder leads to unethical experimentation leads to groundbreaking scientific discoveries (that he shares with no one) #//leads to murder again #//he hides it well enough from most people. and close friends know hes always been a bit of an eccentric anyway. #//but theres something Wrong about his smile nowadays. something unsettling about the look in his eye. #//ANYWAY enjoy the peepaw content im going sleepys <3 #❥ 𝐎𝐎𝐂 ⸻ post ▻ 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆

[ashton-ryder]

this friggen nerd still writing his research paper during a zombie apocalypse I mean REALLY. (although rosie would be happy to edit it because she does so much reading and writing)

"research doesn't end just because the world did. science wouldn't be where it is today if it didn't continue to evolve while the world was burning. how else did you think all the wars and pandemics ended?"

#this boi is dedicated and passionate #but in reality he just needed an excuse to focus on normality of life #and he's also only in the denial stage of grief of the apocalypse #he refuses to accept that he slogged for 4 years for this phd only for zombies to ruin it #asjkdhsjkd #yes rosie come read his scientific junk of a paper #;crack #;answered

[caracello]

over the top pda kajii/deimos is annoying but its NOTHING compared to them pre-relationship ftr. like the mutual pining is insane. kajii talks for 3 hours straight about the chemical rush he gets when he sees daem while chuuya and akutagawa sit in silence praying to any god that will listen that he shuts up soon

#kajii i think decides he has to study this love FOR SCIENCE!!!! wwhile im jsut openly into him because ithink hes cute and funny #hes not really like... in Denial about his feelings he just has never felt them before so his main thought is like #its hard to think when im around daem so i need to Study It . because its Scientifically Interesting. you know. autistically #gush:{💣} #theres not evenlike. Like they dont keep it a secret from each other theyre both very openly in love w the other #but theyre both insane idiots thst have no idea how to navigate a relationship so it takes umm a sec

[asexualchad]

this is becoming exhausting are there any covid-conscious spaces that do not have heavy overtones of kink/polyamory/transgenderism

#i have found exactly one small group that does not discuss this explicitly/is not run by people who openly fantasize about hurting women #like obviously i find the scientific/denialism cognitive dissonance mismatch quite striking #but i really need a space where it's not so fucking aggressive #i've debated a non-liberal/mainstream left group on CM but i don't want to be responsible for a group #also as clever and easy as 'covid doesn't care about your feelings' is my tolerance for ben shapiro fans does not exist #terfs please touch #gender crit #drop the t

[tenth-sentence]

'Deny the powerful and their warriors entry to your workshops,' they warned the coming generations of research workers.

"Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists" - Robert Jungk, translated by James Cleugh

#book quote #brighter than a thousand suns #robert jungk #james cleugh #nonfiction #denial #powerful #warriors #no entry #workshop #warning #next generation #researchers #scientific research

[theexodvs]

"You don't believe in scrupulousity? You're a denialist!"

"You're also a denialist of humor theory, phrenology, female hysteria, drapetomania, the effectiveness of lobotomies, and the vast majority of medical concepts that have ever been proposed."

#Pseudoscience #scientific denialism #Scrupulosity #scrupulosity isn't real #Scrupulosity is not real #Scrupulosity doesn't exist #Scrupulosity does not exist #Scrupulosity is a lie #humor theory #phrenology #female hysteria #drapetomania #lobotomy #lobotomies #pseudomedicine #quack #quacks #quackery

[oh-dear-so-queer]

Discussion of animal homosexuality has in fact been compromised and stifled in the scientific discourse in four principal ways: presumption of heterosexuality, terminological denials of homosexual activity, inadequate or inconsistent coverage, and omission or suppression of information.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

#book quote #biological exuberance #bruce bagemihl #nonfiction #discussion #homosexuality #gay #lesbian #compromised #scientific discourse #presumption #heterosexuality #denial #inadequate #inconsistent #omission #speak #suppression #information

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

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At this point, Pseudo-Scientific American is basically as reliable as The National Enquirer.

This is what ideological takeover looks like.

#Colin Wright #Emma Hilton #Nicholas Christakis #Jerry Coyne #Laura Helmuth #Scientific American #SciAm #pseudoscience #gender pseudoscience #sex is binary #sex binary #biology denial #gender flat earth #gender flat earthers #gender ideology #queer theory #sex denialism #biology denialism #biology #wokeness #woke #wokeism #cult of woke #wokeness as religion #PseudoScientific American #religion is a mental illness

[specialagentartemis]

I get variations on this comment on my post about history misinformation all the time: "why does it matter?" Why does it matter that people believe falsehoods about history? Why does it matter if people spread history misinformation? Why does it matter if people on tumblr believe that those bronze dodecahedra were used for knitting, or that Persephone had a daughter named Mespyrian? It's not the kind of misinformation that actually hurts people, like anti-vaxx propaganda or climate change denial. It doesn't hurt anyone to believe something false about the past.

Which, one, thanks for letting me know on my post that you think my job doesn't matter and what I do is pointless, if it doesn't really matter if we know the truth or make up lies about history because lies don't hurt anyone. But two, there are lots of reasons that it matters.

It encourages us to distrust historians when they talk about other aspects of history. You might think it's harmless to believe that Pharaoh Hatshepsut was trans. It's less harmless when you're espousing that the Holocaust wasn't really about Jews because the Nazis "came for trans people first." You might think it's harmless to believe that the French royalty of Versailles pooped and urinated on the floor of the palace all the time, because they were asshole rich people anyway, who cares, we hate the rich here; it's rather less harmless when you decide that the USSR was the communist ideal and Good, Actually, and that reports of its genocidal oppression are actually lies.

It encourages anti-intellectualism in other areas of scholarship. Deciding based on your own gut that the experts don't know what they're talking about and are either too stupid to realize the truth, or maliciously hiding the truth, is how you get to anti-vaxxers and climate change denial. It is also how you come to discount housing-first solutions for homelessness or the idea that long-term sustained weight loss is both biologically unlikely and health-wise unnecessary for the majority of fat people - because they conflict with what you feel should be true. Believing what you want to be true about history, because you want to believe it, and discounting fact-based corrections because you don't want them to be true, can then bleed over into how you approach other sociological and scientific topics.

How we think about history informs how we think about the present. A lot of people want certain things to be true - this famous person from history was gay or trans, this sexist story was actually feminist in its origin - because we want proof that gay people, trans people, and women deserve to be respected, and this gives evidence to prove we once were and deserve to be. But let me tell you a different story: on Thanksgiving of 2016, I was at a family friend's house and listening to their drunk conservative relative rant, and he told me, confidently, that the Roman Empire fell because they instituted universal healthcare, which was proof that Obama was destroying America. Of course that's nonsense. But projecting what we think is true about the world back onto history, and then using that as recursive proof that that is how the world is... is shoddy scholarship, and gets used for topics you don't agree with just as much as the ones you do. We should not be encouraging this, because our politics should be informed by the truth and material reality, not how we wish the past proved us right.

It frequently reinforces "Good vs. Bad" dichotomies that are at best unhelpful and at worst victim-blaming. A very common thread of historical misinformation on tumblr is about the innocence or benevolence of oppressed groups, slandered by oppressors who were far worse. This very frequently has truth to it - but makes the lies hard to separate out. It often simplifies the narrative, and implies that the reason that colonialism and oppression were bad was because the victims were Good and didn't deserve it... not because colonialism and oppression are bad. You see this sometimes with radical feminist mother goddess Neolithic feminist utopia stuff, but you also see it a lot regarding Native American and African history. I have seen people earnestly argue that Aztecs did not practice human sacrifice, that that was a lie made up by the Spanish to slander them. That is not true. Human sacrifice was part of Aztec, Maya, and many Central American war/religious practices. They are significantly more complex than often presented, and came from a captive-based system of warfare that significantly reduced the number of people who got killed in war compared to European styles of war that primarily killed people on the battlefield rather than taking them captive for sacrifice... but the human sacrifice was real and did happen. This can often come off with the implications of a 'noble savage' or an 'innocent victim' that implies that the bad things the Spanish conquistadors did were bad because the victims were innocent or good. This is a very easy trap to fall into; if the victims were good, they didn't deserve it. Right? This logic is dangerous when you are presented with a person or group who did something bad... you're caught in a bind. Did they deserve their injustice or oppression because they did something bad? This kind of logic drives a lot of transphobia, homophobia, racism, and defenses of Kyle Rittenhouse today. The answer to a colonialist logic of "The Aztecs deserved to be conquered because they did human sacrifice and that's bad" is not "The Aztecs didn't do human sacrifice actually, that's just Spanish propaganda" (which is a lie) it should be "We Americans do human sacrifice all the god damn time with our forever wars in the Middle East, we just don't call it that. We use bullets and bombs rather than obsidian knives but we kill way, way more people in the name of our country. What does that make us? Maybe genocide is not okay regardless of if you think the people are weird and scary." It becomes hard to square your ethics of the Innocent Victim and Lying Perpetrator when you see real, complicated, individual-level and group-level interactions, where no group is made up of members who are all completely pure and good, and they don't deserve to be oppressed anyway.

It makes you an unwitting tool of the oppressor. The favorite, favorite allegation transphobes level at trans people, and conservatives at queer people, is that we're lying to push the Gay Agenda. We're liars or deluded fools. If you say something about queer or trans history that's easy to debunk as false, you have permanently hurt your credibility - and the cause of queer history. It makes you easy to write off as a liar or a deluded fool who needs misinformation to make your case. If you say Louisa May Alcott was trans, that's easy to counter with "there is literally no evidence of that, and lots of evidence that she was fine being a woman," and instantly tanks your credibility going forward, so when you then say James Barry was trans and push back against a novel or biopic that treats James Barry as a woman, you get "you don't know what you're talking about, didn't you say Louisa May Alcott was trans too?" TERFs love to call trans people liars - do not hand them ammunition, not even a single bullet. Make sure you can back up what you say with facts and evidence. This is true of homophobes, of racists, of sexists. Be confident of your facts, and have facts to give to the hopeful and questioning learners who you are relating this story to, or the bigots who you are telling off, because misinformation can only hurt you and your cause.

It makes the queer, female, POC, or other marginalized listeners hurt, sad, and betrayed when something they thought was a reflection of their own experiences turns out not to be real. This is a good response to a performance art piece purporting to tell a real story of gay WWI soldiers, until the author revealed it as fiction. Why would you want to set yourself up for disappointment like that? Why would you want to risk inflicting that disappointment and betrayal on anyone else?

It makes it harder to learn the actual truth.

Historical misinformation has consequences, and those consequences are best avoided - by checking your facts, citing your sources, and taking the time and effort to make sure you are actually telling the truth.

#history #history and the world #misinformation

[diabeticgirl4]

nvm I drafted the post too long ago now my brain can't connect that thought anymore

#ignore me #maddie lifeblogs #I had to stop midsentence bc I was 🎵waiting for the bus in the rain🎵 #so now I'm like. that sure was a thought huh. anyways. #it was gonna be this neatly worded thing about how I'm still finding out how my brain operates #bc nobody educated me on anything even when I was formally diagnosed #so like. here I am adhd for 5 years and I'm just now learning that I legit have a dopamine deficiency??? #it's not just me being bored or stubborn or unmotivated?? like it's an Actual Scientific Brain Thing??? #see I was never told this. why am I just now finding out this is a Thing and it Always Has Been #welp here I go recreating the entire post in the tags anyways. ur welcome lmao. #I'm just. there's so many things I don't know!!! #I was in denial for sooo loongg but like. it's an actual scientific proof thing that my brain is just legit wired differently. #why did it take me nearly 30 years to realize this!! #why don't they tell you this stuff when they diagnose you!!! I'm upset!!!

[radlymona]

I think todays discourse about JKR shows that:

a) most people don’t have an actual firm understanding of what the Holocaust was

b) not do they understand what Holocaust Denial is

c) the conflation between past gay people who cross dressed and present day transgender people is harming historical narratives around same-sex people. It’s a new version of cultural appropriation

d) the inability to understand that “transgender research” in the past was motivated by homophobia, eugenics, and desire for scientifically validated human experimentation is paralleled in todays experimental and often harmful approach to “treatment” of dysphoric individuals