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The use of physical, verbal, or online violence against individuals or groups because they are perceived as promoting pseudoscience. This can range from online harassment and doxxing to real-world threats, vandalism of alternative health clinics, or physical attacks on practitioners of traditional medicine. Anti-pseudoscience violence is often rationalized by the perpetrator as “defending science” or “protecting the public,” but it functions as a form of vigilantism that targets vulnerable communities. It ignores that violence is not a scientific method, and that coercion contradicts the very principles of reason and consent that science advocates claim to defend.
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