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To: exDemMom
--- Vocabulary -- "antivax/antiscience propaganda, charlatans, conning people, to hoodwink, cherry-picking, out of context...."

Not the parlance of "a legitimate scientist." Haven't read this sort of veriage in any journal. Or research paper.

FR is an anonymous forum, and you are as anonymous to me as am I to you. We both might have completed terminal degrees. Perhaps done post-doctoral work? We both might be simply opinionated folk. The last statement is very likely.

As I had written last comment, I write again in this: "I think our conversation is at an end. '"Charlatan' and 'pseudo' when flying in the face of sourced definitions is not a best strategy to convince."

83 posted on 09/16/2023 9:11:41 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
I will continue to debunk antiscience and antivax claims. Since people can die from actions they take based on antiscience/antivax misinformation, I have an ethical and moral obligation to do so.

There is no legal or ethical requirement to call people who create and spread antiscientific nonsense anything other than charlatans or quacks. They are not legitimate scientists. Scientists have an ethical professional obligation to only provide genuine information from reputable sources. Since charlatans and those who spread antivax/antiscience propaganda do not adhere to the ethical requirements of my profession, I will continue to use these descriptive terms.

In the words of Dr. Fauci beginning around 20:13 in this video, "...it is less likely for a red state to get vaccinated against COVID, than it is for a blue state, and deaths among COVID are more in red states than they are in blue states. That is terribly tragic. That a political ideology is going to be responsible for whether or not you are healthy or not, sick or not, or dead or not." (Emphasis mine.)

As long as you post misinformation that I feel is egregious enough to need debunking, I will debunk it.

90 posted on 09/17/2023 9:01:56 AM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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