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http://theconversation.com/what-i-learned-from-debating-science-with-trolls-30514
This article covers things that are common across every anti-science movement from anti-vaxx to creationism to anthropogenic climate change denial to anti-GMO to you name it. Most of the specific references are to climate change denialists, but these arguments are widely applicable, and I find the same rhetoric being used in my own discussion with anti-science people.
This covers a lot of subjects, so I wasn't sure whether to post this in Pseudoscience, Religion vs. Science, or even the main Science forum, so if any mods wanna move it to a better location, please do.
Anyway, while I've encountered plenty of these arguments before (you wouldn't believe how common the Gelileo Gambit is), the author puts some good perspective on things, and I may incorporate some of this stuff into my own discussions with anti-science nuts.
I thought this might be a useful resource for others.
This article covers things that are common across every anti-science movement from anti-vaxx to creationism to anthropogenic climate change denial to anti-GMO to you name it. Most of the specific references are to climate change denialists, but these arguments are widely applicable, and I find the same rhetoric being used in my own discussion with anti-science people.
This covers a lot of subjects, so I wasn't sure whether to post this in Pseudoscience, Religion vs. Science, or even the main Science forum, so if any mods wanna move it to a better location, please do.
Anyway, while I've encountered plenty of these arguments before (you wouldn't believe how common the Gelileo Gambit is), the author puts some good perspective on things, and I may incorporate some of this stuff into my own discussions with anti-science nuts.
I thought this might be a useful resource for others.