To clarify, I mean denied essentially out of spite and partisan fealty as is trendy today, the way people have created their own facts about vaccines and elections, digging up conspiracy theorist talking points that were considered odd niche subjects before and bringing them into the mainstream.
For instance, I never considered vaccine denialism/scaremongering a politically partisan phenomenon before recently. In fact my impression is the purveyors of vaccine denial were more socially liberal if anything. But they seemed relatively contained, with no sympathetic media coverage or ties to mainstream political figures. Then recently a flood of old CT tropes went mainstream and infected the public, with the biggest believers among Republicans, Trump supporters, and conservatives in general. Coincidence? I don't think so.
I'm afraid before long my neighbors will become armchair climate researchers with degrees from Prager University, invoking old talking points like solar output, the medieval warm period, and how on the bright side the UK may get to compete with France in the wine market. All crap that's been debunked/addressed for years and are probably still relatively unfamiliar to the general pubic.
Jim Inhofe brought a snowball to the Senate floor seven years ago. I can easily imagine that level of stupid in much greater frequency when this CT/denialist material gets disseminated through social media and millions of smug pricks start quoting Willie Soon or Bjorn Lomborg or worse.
For instance, I never considered vaccine denialism/scaremongering a politically partisan phenomenon before recently. In fact my impression is the purveyors of vaccine denial were more socially liberal if anything. But they seemed relatively contained, with no sympathetic media coverage or ties to mainstream political figures. Then recently a flood of old CT tropes went mainstream and infected the public, with the biggest believers among Republicans, Trump supporters, and conservatives in general. Coincidence? I don't think so.
I'm afraid before long my neighbors will become armchair climate researchers with degrees from Prager University, invoking old talking points like solar output, the medieval warm period, and how on the bright side the UK may get to compete with France in the wine market. All crap that's been debunked/addressed for years and are probably still relatively unfamiliar to the general pubic.
Jim Inhofe brought a snowball to the Senate floor seven years ago. I can easily imagine that level of stupid in much greater frequency when this CT/denialist material gets disseminated through social media and millions of smug pricks start quoting Willie Soon or Bjorn Lomborg or worse.
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