- Joined
- Jan 12, 2019
At this point we have to start considering that if the establishment is as insane as we now know it is, were the people they labeled "crazies" actually that crazy after all? Or were they just the first ones to be tarred with the same brush the rest of sane society is now.It's something of a catch all. It encompasses: 1) people who make irrational objections to scientific facts and evidence, 2) people who make are skeptical of scientific facts and evidence or overly concerned about outliers, 3) people who take moral stances on things science or medicine can do, 4) religious people in general, 5) people who hold a different opinion on something where the scientific or statistical facts are clear, but what should be done in response is a matter of debate, 6) people not falling in line with the "scientific consensus" on subjects where it's clear more study is needed and the consensus being pushed is false, 7) people not falling in line with the proposed solution to a problem where scientifically it's clear that something is going on but exactly what and what should be best done about it is unclear.
So it gets applied to a wide range of people. From nutjob anti-vaxxers; to people who are onboard with vaccines but have moral objections to abortion; to people who are onboard with vaccines and are pro-choice about abortion, yet don't agree that the appropriate response to gender dysphoria being a thing is to pretend men are women, women are men, demand that everyone change their language and ways they discuss gender to avoid hurting the feelings of these people, hand out hormone injections to anyone of any age who shows the slightest sign of having confusion about their gender, etc.
Modern scientists have made the entire notion of science epistemically bankrupt by falsely accusing everything they dislike of being pseudoscience even in the face of objective results to the contrary.
