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Ken Perrott shared this useful image with Sean Carroll's list of tactics used by science-deniers for more than a hundred years. Some of them claim to be standing on \u201cthe unchanging Word of God,\u201d when the reality is they are standing on unchanging tactics of deception, which haven't changed because they continue to be effective in distorting perception and thus duping people.<\/p>\n

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Ken Perrott shared this useful image with Sean Carroll’s list of tactics used by science-deniers for more than a hundred years. Some of them claim to be standing on \u201cthe unchanging Word of God,\u201d when the reality is they are standing on unchanging tactics of deception, which haven’t changed because they continue to be effective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,85],"tags":[1668,2591,2592,2593,10886,10967,12219,14019],"class_list":["post-25522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pseudoscience","category-science","tag-cdesign-proponentsists","tag-denial","tag-denialism","tag-denialists","tag-science","tag-sean-carroll","tag-tactics","tag-young-earth-creationists"],"yoast_head":"\nScience Denial Tactics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ken Perrott shared this useful image with Sean Carroll's list of tactics used by science-deniers for more than a hundred years. 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