Forbes July 1, 2024
One of my themes in this column over the years has been that you need to be skeptical of many of the claims out there about science and medicine. A healthy dose of skepticism can be a good thing, especially when someone is telling you something that seems surprising.
On the other hand, anti-science forces often pretend that they too are just being skeptical, or “just asking questions,” when what they’re doing is actually science denialism. Denialism is what someone is doing when the science is basically settled, but they refuse to accept it.
Let’s consider perhaps the clearest example of denialism, and the one that causes the most harm to public health: vaccine denialism. The anti-vaccine movement, which has...
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