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A purity culture within debunking communities where the standards for what counts as "proper debunking" become so strict that they function as tests of virtue rather than tools for correction. Debunkist puritanism demands perfect adherence to approved methods, approved sources, approved conclusions—any deviation, any nuance, any acknowledgment of complexity becomes evidence of impurity, grounds for exclusion. [The community] polices its boundaries relentlessly, condemning those who aren't skeptical enough, who entertain unproven [possibilities], who question the orthodoxy. Debunking ceases to be about helping people believe true things and becomes about maintaining the purity of the in-group, distinguishing the truly [enlightened] from the contaminated masses. The irony is that puritanism reproduces exactly the dogmatic mindset that debunking claims to oppose—just with different content.
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