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I feel like it's because this narrative arose that was like "they're wrong but they're all potential scientists that are being rejected by the norm and being further alienated by that rejection". Some might be swayed to less fallacious ways of thinking but some people are so far down the rabbit hole that they're convinced they're right, and they can and will pull as many people down with them as they can.

Letting blatant bullshit have a platform has let the proponents of that bullshit lure more people in. The idea of gently nudging people towards the ideas and techniques we accept as factually correct is nice, but it's just led to the most twisted fuck-ups either manipulating those practices to justify their blatant bullshit and lend it an air of credance, or further radicalised them against the scientific majority for going so far against what they believe to be fact.

A narrative arose asking us to treat them with compassion and understanding, and the biggest con artists of the pseudoscience movement used that goodwill to take a shit in science's mouth and radicalize more people.

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