false balance Archives - Debunking Denialism

Mailbag: But Some Scientists Disagree!!!11

February 28, 2017June 10, 2017 emilskeptic climate change, climate consensus, false balance

False balance inflates the importance of a few mavericks and dismisses independently converging evidence.

How Mainstream Media Contributed to the Misinformation Wars

February 17, 2017December 11, 2017 emilskeptic clickbait, false balance, mainstream media, misinformation wars, preliminary findings, sensationalizing

False balance, sensationalizing preliminary research, indulging quackery and clickbait created a fertile ground.

Debunking Anti-Psychiatry

Entertaining the Denialism of Yet Another Anti-Psychiatry Troll

November 3, 2013June 20, 2016 emilskeptic ADHD, ADHD Denialism, anti-psychiatry, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, DSM, efficacy of antidepressants, false balance, hyperkinetic disorder, ICD, Kirsch, Psychology Today, Thomas Insel, Turner

Out of all the pseudoscience that are criticized on this website — from creationism and the anti-vaccine movement to anti-GM

Miscellaneous

There is No “Spanking Debate”

July 13, 2012May 26, 2017 emilskeptic false balance, physical punishment of children, spanking

An excellent article by journalist Lisa Belkin was posted over at Huffington Post a few days ago called Why Does

Debunking Genocide Denial Holocaust Denialism

My Encounter with a Holocaust Denier

December 7, 2011January 3, 2017 emilskeptic delousing chambers, false balance, gas chambers, holocaust denial, Treblinka, Zyklon-B

While I have spent many hours debating Holocaust deniers and the anti-immigration forces online at various blogs and forums, nothing

Skepticism

Common Denialist Tactics Defined and Destroyed

November 10, 2011August 22, 2013 emilskeptic denialist tactics, false balance, manufactroversy, quote mine

Denialists are people who reject well-supported scientific conclusions by appealing to pseudoscience and using intellectually dishonest debating tactics. Here is