Just to point it out, even the term “denialist” was designed to be a loaded word that biases everyone who hears it against the position. Which doesn’t make them any more or less likely to be correct, but it does let you know that the whole debate has gone political and scoring points against the opposing side has become more important than finding the truth.
Which doesn’t actually add any evidence to either side being correct, because the universe doesn’t really care about what we think, but it does tell you to watch out, because the mainstream voices have already picked which side they want to be correct and are ruthlessly filtering the “evidence” to eliminate all dissent. Perhaps the dissenters really don’t have a point, but if they did they’d be shouted down long before they could make it.
Just to point it out, even the term “denialist” was designed to be a loaded word that biases everyone who hears it against the position. Which doesn’t make them any more or less likely to be correct, but it does let you know that the whole debate has gone political and scoring points against the opposing side has become more important than finding the truth.
Which doesn’t actually add any evidence to either side being correct, because the universe doesn’t really care about what we think, but it does tell you to watch out, because the mainstream voices have already picked which side they want to be correct and are ruthlessly filtering the “evidence” to eliminate all dissent. Perhaps the dissenters really don’t have a point, but if they did they’d be shouted down long before they could make it.