The weight of moral blame in this scenario falls not so much on the “wide eyed conspiracy theorists” (who with a handful of exceptions are certainly making neither friends or profit from subscribing to their beliefs), but on the scientists who, with eduction, training and professional discipline bear the burden to be the grownups in this dialogue and with notable exceptions fail miserably to carry that burden. ![]() Of all people, scientists should be not merely sympathetic but also empathetic to those without voices, without a seat at the table who toil and struggle outside the mainstream with views that are not only unpopular, but taboo…verboten…and those who subscribe to them are subjected to scorn, ridicule and cruelty. Take the “Flat Earth Challenge.” Scientists’ best approach to debunking hypothesis of Flat Earthers is to utilize the tools and methodology of the scientific method itself in a good faith attempt to prove the WORLD IS FLAT.
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