they already won by getting a platform to debate in the first place
They certainly didn’t. The reason why we are in this position in the first place is that the scientific community has ignored these charlatans for so long. Science communicators like Professor Dave actively working to dismantle the talking points of these figures works to at least make it possible for science-minded people to be able to defend their ideas more easily, make it so that people unsure about these topics stop considering conspiratorial views, and just maybe make people deep in the conspiracy theory at least be unable to sleep at night thinking about what they’ve heard. This stuff does actually help people.
Their ideas do not deserve the respect of being on an equal stage with the scientific consensus.
Yes, that’s why they should get humiliated publicly in exchanges like this.
They certainly didn’t. The reason why we are in this position in the first place is that the scientific community has ignored these charlatans for so long. Science communicators like Professor Dave actively working to dismantle the talking points of these figures works to at least make it possible for science-minded people to be able to defend their ideas more easily, make it so that people unsure about these topics stop considering conspiratorial views, and just maybe make people deep in the conspiracy theory at least be unable to sleep at night thinking about what they’ve heard. This stuff does actually help people.
Yes, that’s why they should get humiliated publicly in exchanges like this.
Idiots need to find out they are idiots.
Memetic viruses are real and the strongest vaccine is ridicule, but gentler variants like education exist. (citation needed)