A_throwaway_name62919
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- Jun 29, 2019
It's something of a catch all. It encompasses: 1) people who make irrational objections to scientific facts and evidence, 2) people who make are skeptical of scientific facts and evidence or overly concerned about outliers, 3) people who take moral stances on things science or medicine can do, 4) religious people in general, 5) people who hold a different opinion on something where the scientific or statistical facts are clear, but what should be done in response is a matter of debate, 6) people not falling in line with the "scientific consensus" on subjects where it's clear more study is needed and the consensus being pushed is false, 7) people not falling in line with the proposed solution to a problem where scientifically it's clear that something is going on but exactly what and what should be best done about it is unclear.To this day, I still don't know what "anti-science" means and why someone would be against something that the majority of the population understands as a concept.
So it gets applied to a wide range of people. From nutjob anti-vaxxers; to people who are onboard with vaccines but have moral objections to abortion; to people who are onboard with vaccines and are pro-choice about abortion, yet don't agree that the appropriate response to gender dysphoria being a thing is to pretend men are women, women are men, demand that everyone change their language and ways they discuss gender to avoid hurting the feelings of these people, hand out hormone injections to anyone of any age who shows the slightest sign of having confusion about their gender, etc.