denialism
- noun
- /dɪˈnaɪəlɪzəm/
- Formal
- Continuing to give this person the benefit of the doubt is not skepticism; it's denialism.
- climate denialism
- science denialism
- change denialism
Is that just the new form of climate change denialism?
- Is that just the new form of climate change denialism?
- Could you talk a little bit about why and how you decided to use data to help kind of puncture through the denialism and the obstruction?
- And I think a lot of the denialism that we see around climate stuff is trying to avoid that pain.
- But YouTube, they banned us for two weeks and they took our episode down because they said that we promoted Holocaust denialism, something like that, right.
- They're engaging in what's called orange denialism.
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Our root problem today is not obdurate denialism coming from the right.
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I'm becoming increasingly annoyed with a seeming ignorance or denialism of the value and possibilities of psychology research.
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And I think a lot of the denialism that we see around climate stuff is trying to avoid that pain.
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Not to mention, of course, the now always present big elephant in the room, which is science denialism, sorry, climate denialism.
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The kind of denialism we're talking about here isn't a mistake or an accident.
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Then there's the climate change denialism that can be felt even here in New York.
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Are you really that far behind in understanding the difference between denialism and skepticism?
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Again, this is a clear case of denialism as opposed to skepticism.
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Paul Holper (CSIRO) will present on ways to approach climate change denialism in a Victorian context.
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Many scientists express concern about the rise of denialism regarding the effects of climate change.
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Denialism comes from the common verb deny, which means 'to say no' or 'refuse', plus the ending -ism, a marker for a 'belief' or 'practice' (as in racism). So, denialism is the practice or belief of refusing well-known facts or evidence, especially in science or history.