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somenameformelast Wednesday at 5:39 AM1 replyview on HN

No, there aren't. Most people don't realize when they're being trolled by things like e.g. flat earth types. Go read one of the groups, it's a trolling meme largely turned into something by the internet + media. Thanks to social media even if let's say 0.1% of English speakers believe (or pretend to believe) something, that'd be 1.6 million people, so you can get a false impression, especially when the media takes the trolling and then amplifies it with a straight face largely to amplify these dumb and farcical divides.


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tbrownawlast Wednesday at 3:52 PM

I've seen science (the process, not just the results of that process) denounced as an aspect or tool of Western colonialism / imperialism. And there's that related "indigenous ways of knowing" thing that Canada has going on.

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Also the flat earth people actually aren't trying to argue against science (the process). They're arguing that everyone except them made either observational errors or reasoning errors.