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I think it would be a great cultural event if scientists made a documentary as a rebuttal. I've seen this before where they rather deplatform than confront. Maybe they don't want to confront certain facts. Should be interesting to watch.

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Should a planetary scientist spend her time making documentaries to rebut the flat earth people? Who is "deplatforming"? They are asking for the film's creators to face up to their mistakes, retract the film, and apologize. Nobody can take Moore's platform away.

Er, a film distribution company already dropped the movie and refused to distribute it further. Moore's platform is film. That's actually people taking his platform away.

They (regrettably) decided to continue to distribute it after all, even though they say they know it is garbage, so as not to seem to be censors. Also, it was far from the only platform that the film had. This is not analogous to actual deplatforming, that goes on on college campuses, for example.

Glad to hear it! I don't actually like Moore, not being a left leaning activist type myself. But he should be able to speak if people want to listen.

As for deplatforming, come on. There is more than one college campus in the world. If it's deplatforming to kick people out of colleges it's definitely deplatforming to bully film distributors into dropping films.

Yes. Carl Sagan did it. He wrote a book.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

I actually learned a lot of interesting factoids from a debunking movie, https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/

So yes, I would definitely watch "rebuttle" documentaries! Are there any others out there?

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