Anti-starmerism

The sensation of feeling violently ill upon seeing keir Starmer's Face ,or hearing his voice.

I was watching the news ,while eating dinner and i had a sudden attack of Anti-starmerism .

by Pan Horned God January 13, 2026

Anti Glennetic

To be opposed to Glenn in everyway and for no reason at all.

Lesser men tend to be anti glennetic due to their insecurities.

by Team Glenn till the end! January 17, 2026

Anti-Pseudoscience Slurs

Hyperbolic, derogatory terms used to instantly dismiss and ridicule individuals or ideas that deviate from mainstream scientific consensus, often without engaging their specific claims. While motivated by defense of science, these slurs (e.g., "flatard," "anti-vaxxer" used as a pure epithet, "conspiritard," "woo-woo") function as thought-terminating clichés. They replace reasoned rebuttal with tribal mockery, attacking the person's intelligence or sanity rather than their arguments. This often backfires, reinforcing the target's identity as a persecuted truth-seeker and cementing their in-group loyalty.

Example: In an online debate about GMOs, someone expresses concern about long-term ecological impacts. Instead of addressing the specific concern about monocultures or pesticide resistance, a respondent immediately calls them a "Luddite" and a "science-denier." The slur shuts down conversation. The concerned person, now insulted, retreats to communities that validate their fears, viewing the mainstream as dogmatic and abusive. The slur didn't protect science; it weaponized its label and created an enemy. Anti-Pseudoscience Slurs.

by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Anti-Pseudoscience Bigotry

A rigid, ideological stance that conflates scientific methodology with the current institutional consensus, treating any challenge to the latter as heresy against the former. It's the belief that science is a monolithic repository of Final Truths rather than a fallible, ongoing process. This bigotry manifests as automatically venerating "official" sources while dismissing all heterodox thinkers, regardless of evidence or argument. It fails to recognize that many revolutionary ideas (germ theory, plate tectonics) began as "pseudoscience" outside the consensus, and that skepticism of institutional authority is sometimes warranted.

Example: A researcher presents preliminary but methodologically sound data suggesting a non-standard mechanism for a well-understood phenomenon. Instead of evaluating the work, established figures immediately brand it "pathological science" and blacklist the researcher from journals. They cite the "overwhelming consensus" as proof the new work must be wrong, committing the appeal-to-authority fallacy. This bigotry protects orthodoxy but stifles the corrective, revolutionary potential that is essential to science's long-term health. Anti-Pseudoscience Bigotry.

by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Anti-Pseudoscience Trauma

The specific psychological injury inflicted by aggressive, dehumanizing, or abusive campaigns conducted in the name of combating pseudoscience. Victims are often individuals whose identity, community, or health practices (e.g., alternative medicine adherents, spiritual practitioners) are labeled "pseudoscientific" and then targeted with relentless harassment, public shaming, doxxing, and accusations of stupidity or evil. The trauma stems from the totalizing, absolutist aggression of the attackers, who often operate with a crusader mentality that justifies any means to discredit the perceived enemy of "Science."

Example: A person who finds solace in a benign, non-dogmatic spiritual practice posts about it online. They are identified by an anti-pseudoscience "watchdog" account, which unleashes a horde of followers to flood their mentions with insults ("idiot," "fraud"), mock their intelligence, and send threats. Their social media is reported en masse, their employer is contacted to call them a "public purveyor of nonsense." The victim is left with severe anxiety, feeling hunted and worthless, not for causing harm, but for holding a belief deemed heretical by a militant in-group. Anti-Pseudoscience Trauma.

by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Anti-Pseudoscience Trauma Syndrome

The symptomatic profile of someone suffering from Anti-Pseudoscience Trauma. It includes: hypervigilance and fear of expressing any non-mainstream idea, identity crisis (e.g., "Am I a bad person for believing this?"), social withdrawal from both former communities and the wider public sphere, and a deep distrust of scientific institutions perceived as weaponized. The syndrome represents the human cost of a "culture war" fought without ethical boundaries, where individuals are psychologically collateral damage in a battle over epistemic territory.

Example: A woman who used energy healing as a comforting supplement during cancer treatment, without rejecting conventional care, was dragged into a public forum by a militant skeptic group and portrayed as a "death cultist." She now has nightmares, has abandoned all support groups (both alternative and mainstream), and feels intense shame and confusion about her own experiences. She trusts no authorities. Her trauma syndrome is a direct result of being used as a prop in a performative display of anti-pseudoscience righteousness. Anti-Pseudoscience Trauma Syndrome.

by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Anti-Pseudoscience Trauma Denial

The insistence that the aggressive combat against pseudoscience can never be traumatic because it is "on the right side of truth." This denial claims that any distress felt by targets is merely the deserved consequence of believing falsehoods, or a manipulative tactic to avoid criticism. It fundamentally rejects the principle that the method of critique matters, asserting that protecting people from the emotional consequences of being "wrong" is itself antiscientific. This creates a moral carte blanche for harassment.

Example: After a public shaming campaign drives a person targeted as a "pseudoscience promoter" to a mental health crisis, the campaign's leader states, "We didn't cause trauma. We presented facts. If their fragile worldview can't handle facts, that's a them problem. Calling our activism 'trauma' is just a pseudoscientific tactic to silence scrutiny." The denial here absolves the activists of all responsibility for the human impact of their coordinated social violence. Anti-Pseudoscience Trauma Denial.

by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026