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Despite everything, some still carry on about “denialism”

Hard on the heels of the news that a Harvard astronomer still thinks that long-vanished space rock Oumuamua is “alien tech,” we see—direct from Boilerplate Central—a screed by a Harvard science historian at Scientific American about “denialism.” She has a theory:

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Biologist responds to fretting over “denialism” at Nature

Why should we trust “authority,” when it has been publicly embarrassed over and over?

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