#science deniers

[odinsblog]

#politics #public health #antivaxxers #anti maskers #coronavirus #covid-19 #plague rats #science deniers

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

#Eric's Electrons #pseudoscience #science #pseudoscience vs science #science vs pseudscience #evidence #what science is #science denial #science deniers #religion is a mental illness

[delphinidin4]

#lol #funny #i'm laughing so i don't cry #science deniers

[hereticallyeverafter]

I was scrollin" thru the 'Gram yesterday, as you do, and came across Fat Activist and Skinny Knight William Hornby for some godforsaken reason. His little TickTawk was about counting calories and hair loss- man literally said that that's not healthy and a sign that your body is shutting down.

Um, maybe if you're balls deep in anorexia like Eugenia Cooney, but losing hair when your cutting calories is not that drastic. How do you know, Rachel? Because I've been doing CICO since May. I'm down 40 lbs and yes I'm losing hair but no I'm not going bald NOR dying lol. Full disclosure, I'm 15 lbs away from leaving Obese Type I behind. Progress. Obviously not on death's door. Google is your friend; the hair stuff is totally normal and temporary.

It's these science-denialist term-manipulative twerps that really grind my gears about the ""fat positive"" ""fat liberation"" community. Like, I'm sorry Will has BDD, but his anecdotal ED experience no more qualifies him to be dishing out medical advice than mine does, and yet here he is spreading his buttcheeks and farting shitty "advice" everywhere, scaring people out of bettering their health 💩

Don't listen to him. Or any FA. Or, if you do, at least hold your doctor's advice in higher regard.

#sheesh #i was triggered #william hornby #cico #weight loss #hair loss #anti FA #anti Fat liberation #health #science deniers #tiktok

[rodgermalcolmmitchell]

You've heard the reasons for voting left or right. Here's one of the most important ones that is getting little attention

If you are debating how to vote, here is a clue. I’ll comment on it but frequently pause to let you draw your own conclusions. As you read it, think about evolutionary effects — who lives, who dies, and at what ages. How fringe anti-science views infiltrated mainstream politics Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News Rates of routine childhood vaccination hit a 10-year low in 2023. That, according to the…

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#Amy Maxmen #COVID deniers #Darwin awards #monetary sovereignty #science deniers #Vaccine deniers

[friday-is-unfunny]

I love having to explain the concept of up and down to a grown ass adult 🙄

#why do i still go on instagram #like does this guy want to believe a bunch of nonsensical bullshit #this is why we need better education #science denial #science deniers #facepalm #flat earth #flat earthers #physics #terrible memes #terrible facebook memes #facebook science #instagram comments #comment section #shitty comments #flat earth nonsense #this is bullshit #willful ignorance

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Anti-vaxxers killed more than 300,000 Americans during COVID...However, it was the voluntary choice of these people to follow the deniers of science, the populists, so that they would eventually die. It is cruel, but in reality it is a natural purge of society from fools...

In the case of Latvia, the pandemic hit the hardest anti-vaxxers living in the Russian propaganda space. A number of anti-vaxxer disinformation campaigns have been set up in Russia to destabilize the United States and the rest of the West, but the irony of the whole event is that the campaigners, populist fools and Russophiles themselves have suffered the most. Among those living in this ‘Russian speaking’ and Russian propaganda  environment, the mortality rate of anti-vaxxers was on average 6-8 times higher than among those vaccinated... 

#covid-19 #anti-vaxxers #science #USA #Latvia #science deniers #pandemic

[antidrumpfs]

Cartoon by Drew Sheneman

#climate denial #climate crisis #climate change #climate science #climate deniers

[aberrant-angel]

just saw someone add their own dni list which included terminally online discourse stuff like "proshipper" and "pro endo" to someone else's very serious post about actual real-world issues that they reblogged

i'm stunned. that has gotta be one of the most tumblr things i've witnessed so far. just the juxtaposition of these two images, it's like art in itself.

#also what does “science denier” even mean that's so broad

[thedepressionoftrees]

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but if you deny science, empirical evidence, or proven facts then you don't get an opinion on anything until you recognize reality

#science #empirical evidence #logic #terfs can fuck off #antivaxxers can also fuck off #same with young earth creationists #climate change deniers #and everyone else who denies facts

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Abstract Members of the public can disagree with scientists in at least two ways: people can reject well-established scientific theories and they can believe fabricated, deceptive claims about science to be true. Scholars examining the reasons for these disagreements find that some individuals are more likely than others to diverge from scientists because of individual factors such as their science literacy, political ideology, and religiosity. This study builds on this literature by examining the role of conspiracy mentality in these two phenomena. Participants were recruited from a national online panel (N = 513) and in person from the first annual Flat Earth International Conference (N = 21). We found that conspiracy mentality and science literacy both play important roles in believing viral and deceptive claims about science, but evidence for the importance of conspiracy mentality in the rejection of science is much more mixed.

Science denialism permeates society. Though adamant anti-vaxxers and resolute flat Earthers may be small in numbers, many more people in the United States deny climate change and/or evolution (at least 50% and 33%, respectively). And while scientists face public denial of well-supported theories, popular culture celebrates pseudoscience: Olympic athletes engage in cupping, “gluten-free” is trending (even among those without disorders like celiac disease), and unsubstantiated alternative medicine methods flourish with support from cultural icons like Oprah. Governments face furious opposition to fluoridated water (when it was added to prevent tooth decay5), and popular restaurant chains, like Chipotle, proudly tout their opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) (see https://www.chipotle.com/gmo; scientists stress that the focus should be on the risks and benefits of each specific product and not globally accepted or rejected based on the processes used to make them).

Moreover, the emergence of social media has provided a broad forum for the famous, not famous, and infamous alike to share and crowdsource opinions and even target misinformation to those who are most vulnerable. This allows so-called fake news to go viral. Yet who is most susceptible to denying science and/or believing misinformation? In the current study, we consider the extent to which conspiracy mentality leads people to (a) reject well-supported scientific theories and (b) accept viral and deceptive claims (commonly referred to as fake news) about science, two ways in which publics disagree with scientists.

[...]

Conclusion The proliferation of deceptive claims on social media has done a lot to normalize conspiracy, and to some extent conspiratorial worldviews. We can try to dismiss conspiracy theorizing as something undertaken only by a foil-hat-wearing fringe, however when our friends and neighbors (and sometimes ourselves) begin to believe and share conspiracies on social media, we must acknowledge that conspiracy theorizing is much more widespread. And when it becomes commonplace to project conspiratorial motives onto scientific institutions (and not just corporate or governmental ones) merely because information disagrees with our worldviews, we are in danger of entering into a space where knowledge becomes almost completely relative, we cannot engage in rational discussion with those with whom we disagree, and we completely break down the division of cognitive labor on which our society relies. Although we should not be gullible—after all, there are real conspiracies—we must learn how to balance skepticism with trust.

#science #conspiracy theories #conspiracy theory #science denial #science deniers #conspiracy mentality #antiscience #anti science #religion is a mental illness

[tomorrowusa]

Put Trump back in the White House and we'll see an all out war on the planet led by Republicans and the fossil fuel industry.

In the same interview with Sean Hannity when Trump said he'd be a dictator, he also promised that he would "drill, drill, drill".

His lust for fossil fuels only continues to grow.

Former President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, staffed his environmental agencies with fossil fuel lobbyists and claimed — against all scientific evidence — that the Earth’s rising temperatures will “ start getting cooler.” Expect a second Trump presidency to show less restraint. Trump’s campaign utterances, and the policy proposals being drafted by hundreds of his supporters, point to the likelihood that his return to the White House would bring an all-out war on climate science and policies — eclipsing even his first-term efforts that brought U.S. climate action to a virtual standstill. Those could include steps that aides shrank back from taking last time, such as meddling in the findings of federal climate reports. [ ... ] But as the GOP front-runner, he’s gone back to alleging that human-caused global warming is fake, is baselessly blaming whale deaths on wind turbines and said last month that if elected he would be a “ dictator for one day” — in part so he could “drill, drill, drill.” Meanwhile, many of his former staffers are building out a comprehensive plan to decimate both climate policy and regulations on fossil fuels. And Trump allies expect that the former president would fill his next administration with officials who are even more hostile to efforts to address global warming.

The people on the fringe who claim that both parties are alike seem like even bigger idiots with each passing day. Putzing around with third parties is like playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded revolver.

The only way to avert a disaster for democracy and a planetary catastrophe is to vote and Vote Democratic.

It's always easier to prevent a dictatorship than it is to end it once it's in power.

#climate change #donald trump #dictator #drill drill drill #republicans are enemies of the climate #a second trump administration #fossil fuel fascism #climate deniers #trump's war on climate science #save the planet #vote blue no matter who #election 2024

[texaschainsawmascara]

grown adults, men AND women (which is doubly embarrassing) who think shaving pussy raw is the most hygienic option, in this day & age of google, really explains the state of the world

#science deniers should not be allowed to vote fr

[beeben]

I read these like anti Christianity whatever or even like someone whos not anti Christian just explaining something cus everyone always assumes all religion follows the same rules as Christianity but in different words which i get its annoying but some of u act like the religion itself makes u evil or dumb or something its just kinda weird. Like i understand having religious trauma but i doubt every single person who bitches about us has religious trauma from Christianity specially and nothing else... Like in any religion theres overzealous people and any religion has people who misinterpreted the teachings but its so normal for yall to act like Christians are too stupid to use the Internet and read the mean shit you say

#like saying all of us are science deniers or abuse women or are ok with racism #its just not true.

[antidrumpfs]

Cartoon by Bill Bramhall

#climate denial #climate deniers #climate change #climate science