#science deniers

[odinsblog]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[crazycatsiren]

You know what?

My ancestors would have wanted pasteurization, vaccines, antibiotics, disinfectants, birth control, psychiatric medications, pain management, anesthesia. My ancestors would have wanted to be able to keep their loved ones around longer, and not lose them too early/too soon to childbirths, injuries, bacterial infections, mental illnesses, and diseases that are curable and/or preventable in our modern day life.

Modern medicine saves lives.

[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…

[friday-is-unfunny]

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

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[wyrmfedgrave]

Trump will send America back to the stone age

Can we call tRump's reign the Moronic Age?

Or, is that name already taken?!

End.

[tomorrowusa]

With Mr. Drill!Drill!Drill! returning to office, the climate needs all the help it can get.

Support the nonprofit Climate Science Legal Defense Fund!

The last time Donald Trump was president, his administration pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, removed information about climate change from agency websites, and buried the findings of federal scientists. As Trump prepares to return to office, the nonprofit Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, which provides free legal and educational support to researchers facing harassment and intimidation for their work, is gearing up for a high-stakes protracted struggle to protect scientists.

[mudwerks]

(via After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs | Ars Technica)

have at it, science-deniers...

[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.

[bustafe]

i love his voice her e i need to kiss him so bad sobs sobs sobs

[crazycatsiren]

"It's not neurodivergence/disability/chronic illness it's your hidden power/witch potential/root from outer space!"

I'm going to go ahead and swing this cast iron skillet into your face now.

[not-your-average-prolifer]

what. how are you "rad aligned" and anti abortion

because im not actually a radfem, I just agree with many if not most of their beliefs with the main exception being abortion. friendly reminder that we don't need to be able to kill our unborn daughters in order to achieve liberation 💖

[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

[that-bitch-abbi-lynne]

People who think evolution isn’t really are almost always just not understanding evolution, and the ones who do understand it and still think it isn’t real are willfully ignorant and stupid.

Evolution is not a god, it’s not a conscious act, it’s not a thing that does something. It’s just the byproduct of reproduction. All reproduction has the potential for mutations, and all sexual reproduction necessarily combines different traits and aspects of things to create something new. The mutations that are more beneficial, and the combinations of traits that are more beneficial, will allow a creature to survive longer. A creature that survives longer will naturally reproduce more than other creatures, and so their traits will be more likely to get passed on to new generations. Eventually, when enough of these new and more useful traits stack up, a species will be necessarily different from others that didn’t have those changes.

If a population of cats get separated, one living in an extremely cold climate and one living in an extremely warm climate, those cats will necessarily diverge and become two different species of cats. And you will understand that to be true if you just think about it. Let’s say that how they got separated a group of the cats in the colder climate split off and moved down to the warmer one. The fluffiest cats in that group will naturally start to die off, and the ones with less fur will survive longer and reproduce more. More fur means more retained heat, which is not good in hot climates. Eventually, the cats in the warmer climate will have little to no fur, and will be noticeably different from the cats in the colder climate. They will be a new species.

That’s literally the whole idea behind evolution! It’s not a contradiction of god, unless you’re stupid! We can literally see it happening, there have been studies. One such study looked at mice. They had mice in the desert and mice in a darker area. The mice in the desert were tan, and when they moved to the darker area, they got eaten by birds more often because they stood out. This created environmental pressure for darker fur, and so mice with darker fur survived longer and reproduced more, and eventually they were the most common mouse in that area. It’s literally just cause and effect.

If you still think evolution isn’t real, you’re just stupid and willfully ignorant.

[deformable-pet]

We are going to have to start taking "the author's poorly disguised fetish" away from people soon i just saw this used to describe the gory death scenes in the Jurassic park novels i hate being exposed to opinions in public discords for games i like

Michael crichton was a close-minded luddite who could be burned to ash by the concept of deviantArt he would not have the wisdom points to fetishize this