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denialism
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25 sectionsContents
- Definition and tactics
- Prescriptive and polemic perspectives
- Politics and science
- Climate change
- HIV/AIDS
- COVID-19
- Evolution
- Flat Earth
- Genetically modified foods
- Statins
- Mental illness denial
- Election denial
- Historiography
- Armenian genocide denialism
- Holocaust denialism
- Nakba denialism
- Srebrenica massacre denialism
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
- Articles
- Books
- External links
thumb|Anti-denialist banner at the 2017 Climate March in Washington, D.C.
In the sciences and in historiography, denialism is the rejection of basic facts and concepts that are undisputed, well-supported parts of the scientific consensus or historical record on a subject, in favor of ideas that are radical, controversial, or fabricated. Examples include Holocaust denial, AIDS denialism, and climate change denial. The forms of denialism present the common feature of the person rejecting overwhelming evidence and trying to generate political controversy in attempts to deny the existence of consensus.