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Stop calling everyone a "skeptic" and call them what they are: deniers. Anti-science, fact resistant deniers. Calling people germ-theory skeptics, or climate skeptics, or vaccine skeptics, and so on and so on, makes it sound like there's an honest scientific debate going on
Exactly. Skepticism is about casting doubt on beliefs and dogmas, not outright rejecting facts. When it comes to germs and vaccines there's scientific consensus on those matters. They're as close to facts as you can get. But rejecting those you're not a skeptic, you're a denier. There's no scientific debate on those topics, only a political debate on whether to reject science or not.
scientists are skeptics…
I never refuted that?
i’m adding, not disagreeing… guess i should’ve said, “yeah comrade, well put, scientists are the real skeptics 🤝”
but, for the record, i agree with your preceding comment.
i apologize for lack of clarity 🎩 🤏
This comment is peak Lemmy 🤌
(I mean this in the best possible way)
I'm sorry but "Germ-theory sceptic" is damaging enough considering the last one should have died in the 1800's.
I honest to God can't believe how such fucking morons managed to get power. RFK jr. Would have been seen as a bigger crackpot than Alex Jones if he wasn't RFK's son.
He'll be calling himself a 'gravity-theory sceptic' next and flinging himself off a building. It's the only next logical step.
'idiots' is my preferred term. I'm in favor of calling stupid people out again. Too long has stupidity been condoned and even championed 'He tells it like it is'.
They are morons and need to be called that unabashedly.
FTFY!
Oh, I thought they'd misspelt septic...
But first of all GERMS ARE NOT A THEORY
germ theory is a scientific theory
Germs and how they spread disease is a raw fact. Nerd. Jk ut no you don't have to use the word theory for it