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denialism
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thumb|Anti-denialist banner at the 2017 Climate March in Washington, D.C.
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- Subclass of
- conspiracy theory
- Has part
- Nakba denial
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- topic's main category
- Category:Denialism
- has characteristic
- irrationality
- different from
- scientific skepticism
- P8168
- Symbol of Tokelau
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Encyclopedic overview
25 sectionsContents
- Definition and tactics
- Prescriptive and polemic perspectives
- Politics and science
- Climate change
- HIV/AIDS
- COVID-19
- Evolution
- Flat Earth
- Genetically modified foods
- Statins
- Mental illness denial
- Election denial
- Historiography
- Armenian genocide denialism
- Holocaust denialism
- Nakba denialism
- Srebrenica massacre denialism
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thumb|Anti-denialist banner at the 2017 Climate March in Washington, D.C.
In the sciences and in historiography, denialism is the rejection of basic facts and concepts that are undisputed, well-supported parts of the scientific consensus or historical record on a subject, in favor of ideas that are radical, controversial, or fabricated. Examples include Holocaust denial, AIDS denialism, and climate change denial. The forms of denialism present the common feature of the person rejecting overwhelming evidence and trying to generate political controversy in attempts to deny the existence of consensus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “denialism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.