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[–] 146 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm sorry but "Germ-theory sceptic" is damaging enough considering the last one should have died in the 1800's.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    '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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    But first of all GERMS ARE NOT A THEORY

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