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Dismissal Responses to New Ideas in #Physics

8. Dismissal via Redefinition
"This isn't physics; it's metaphysics."
"You're trying to redefine established concepts with vague terminology."
"Gravitation, Radiation, and Particulate Motion? Sounds like pseudoscience."
"This isn't a theory; it's just speculation."

#ScientificDogma #NewIdeas #PhysicsDebate #CriticalThinking #ScienceSkepticism #ParadigmShift #IntellectualBias #RedefiningPhysics #AcademicGatekeeping #SciComm #TheoreticalPhysics

Dismissal Responses to New Ideas in #Physics

8. Dismissal via Redefinition
"This isn't physics; it's metaphysics."
"You're trying to redefine established concepts with vague terminology."
"Gravitation, Radiation, and Particulate Motion? Sounds like pseudoscience."
"This isn't a theory; it's just speculation."

#ScientificDogma #NewIdeas #PhysicsDebate #CriticalThinking #ScienceSkepticism #ParadigmShift #IntellectualBias #RedefiningPhysics #AcademicGatekeeping #SciComm #TheoreticalPhysics

Dismissal Responses to New Ideas in #Physics

8. Dismissal via Redefinition
"This isn't physics; it's metaphysics."
"You're trying to redefine established concepts with vague terminology."
"Gravitation, Radiation, and Particulate Motion? Sounds like pseudoscience."
"This isn't a theory; it's just speculation."

#ScientificDogma #NewIdeas #PhysicsDebate #CriticalThinking #ScienceSkepticism #ParadigmShift #IntellectualBias #RedefiningPhysics #AcademicGatekeeping #SciComm #TheoreticalPhysics

Dismissal Responses to New Ideas in #Physics

8. Dismissal via Redefinition
"This isn't physics; it's metaphysics."
"You're trying to redefine established concepts with vague terminology."
"Gravitation, Radiation, and Particulate Motion? Sounds like pseudoscience."
"This isn't a theory; it's just speculation."

#ScientificDogma #NewIdeas #PhysicsDebate #CriticalThinking #ScienceSkepticism #ParadigmShift #IntellectualBias #RedefiningPhysics #AcademicGatekeeping #SciComm #TheoreticalPhysics

Dismissal Responses to New Ideas in #Physics

8. Dismissal via Redefinition
"This isn't physics; it's metaphysics."
"You're trying to redefine established concepts with vague terminology."
"Gravitation, Radiation, and Particulate Motion? Sounds like pseudoscience."
"This isn't a theory; it's just speculation."

#ScientificDogma #NewIdeas #PhysicsDebate #CriticalThinking #ScienceSkepticism #ParadigmShift #IntellectualBias #RedefiningPhysics #AcademicGatekeeping #SciComm #TheoreticalPhysics

"That skepticism proved fatal for more rural Americans than would have died had heartland vaccination rates mirrored those nationwide percentages.

Not every rural White American espouses xenophobic, conspiratorial, undemocratic, or violent attitudes. But rural Whites are overrepresented across all four of these threats.”

~ Ibid., pp. 173-4, 194

#Trump #rural #white #WhiteRuralRage #ConspiracyTheories #VaccineRefusal #COVID #ScienceSkepticism #xenophobia #violence
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“QAnon believers are one and a half times more likely to live in rural than in urban areas. ...

Scientific skepticism proved especially lethal when rural Whites – the citizens most dubious of pandemic experts – refused safe COVID-19 vaccines at rates higher than urban and suburban citizens."

~ Ibid., pp. 173, 194

#Trump #rural #white #WhiteRuralRage #QAnon #ConspiracyTheories #VaccineRefusal #COVID #ScienceSkepticism
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We were treated to a fascinating talk on science scepticism & vaccine hesistancy in Austria yesterday, Many thanks to Michaela Pfadenhauer (Uni Wien) for the talk, as well as Barbara Pfetsch (FUBerlin) and Steffen Mau (HU Berlin) for their commentary!
#sociology #vaccinehesitancy #scienceskepticism #Pandemic #lockdown