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==About== | ==About== | ||
[[Denialism]] is the repeated re-use of already-defeated but otherwise persuasive arguments -- an implicit ''denial'' that there are any valid counter-arguments. Denialism works when such arguments are presented to audiences which are either naive (unaware of the counter-arguments) or willing (being pre-disposed to agree -- "wanting to believe"). | [[Denialism]] is the repeated re-use of already-defeated but otherwise persuasive arguments -- an implicit ''denial'' that there are any valid counter-arguments. Denialism works when such arguments are presented to audiences which are either naive (unaware of the counter-arguments) or willing (being pre-disposed to agree -- "wanting to believe"). | ||
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===Examples=== | ===Examples=== | ||
* [[global warming denial]] | * [[global warming denial]] | ||
| − | * [[creationism]] | + | * [[creationism]] and [[intelligent design]] are forms of [[evolution]] denial |
* [[9/11 anomaly denial]] | * [[9/11 anomaly denial]] | ||
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* {{!in|dkosopedia}} no information (2009-12-12) | * {{!in|dkosopedia}} no information (2009-12-12) | ||
* {{!in|sourcewatch}} no equivalent page; try [[sourcewatch:Special:Search/Denialism|searching]] (2009-12-12) | * {{!in|sourcewatch}} no equivalent page; try [[sourcewatch:Special:Search/Denialism|searching]] (2009-12-12) | ||
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| + | * '''2006-09-19''' [http://www.giveupblog.com/2006/09/denialists.html Denialists] "...the type of person that refuses to believe in facts when they are indisputable. Topics of denial include [[Holocaust denial|the holocaust]], [[HIV denial|HIV causing AIDS]], [[global warming denial|global warming/climate change]], [[evolution]], the necessity of animals in research, cigarettes causing cancer, embryonic stem cells aren't as good as adult stem cells, the government blew up the WTC on 9/11 not terrorists etc." | ||
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