The aim of science is not only to open a door to infinite knowledge and wisdom but to set a limit to infinite error.

Right. I don’t think genuine scientists resort to bullying in the normal conditions. They just show you the evidence and leave it to you whether to trust it or not. That is what we all do.

But, if they find those alternative perspectives - which are ‘not reality’ but just imagination and blind beliefs without credible evidence - harming the world, they wouldn’t keep quiet.

If you think vaccinating children causes autism or it is against your religious beliefs or they contain something that causes infertility and tell everybody around not to get vaccinated, you are putting peoples’ life at risk with your baseless beliefs. Do you think scientists should keep quiet and allow people to die because of somebody’s stupidity?

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The problem with “I’m entitled to my opinion” is that, all too often, it’s used to shelter disastrous beliefs that should have been abandoned long back. It becomes shorthand for “I can say or think whatever I like” – and by extension, continuing to argue is somehow disrespectful. And this attitude feeds, I suggest, into the false equivalence between experts and non-experts that is an increasingly pernicious feature of our public discourse. Perhaps that’s one reason why enthusiastic amateurs think they’re entitled to disagree with climate scientists and immunologists and have their views “respected.” And do you respect ignorance, misconceptions and superstitions in the same way as facts based on evidence and true knowledge? How silly that looks (1)!

What you say misconception is just your perception but need not be based on facts.

In democracies it is increasingly becoming difficult to stop anybody saying that vaccines cause autism, no matter how many times that claim has been disproven by medical science (1). And anti-vaxxers keep saying it over and over again to mislead people.

But if ‘entitled to an opinion’ means ‘entitled to have your views treated as serious candidates for the truth’ then it’s a serious condition in science. Democracy doesn't work like that in this domain. You are entitled to have your opinions only if they don't harm the society you are living in. If you try to tell and mislead people that vaccination is a Government's conspiracy to sterilize you like Taliban does in Pakistan or spread rumours like vaccination causes autism like people of religion do in the US, that right should be taken away from you! Because you are refusing to see facts and causing the societies to collapse with your irresponsible behaviour.

Facts don’t need democracy. Facts need evidence based acceptance.

Public health officials in Philadelphia were granted a court order in 1991 after multiple children died from measles (2). The city forcibly vaccinated six children even though their families had refused the shots for religious reasons. Schools are banning children who are not vaccinated and courts are even ordering children in certain states of the US not to attend schools and stay at home if they are not immunised . These people are responsible for spreading the diseases by their irresponsible behaviours. They have to be stopped forcefully from doing that (3).

This is not childish antagonism in the scientists’ domain. Sincere concern for the world.

Scientists don’t resort to bullying. That is done sometimes by others who support science and scientists when they think things are going to the extreme. But still we don’t support bullying. “Educating in the right way” is what science communication is all about. We are on the right path here.

The aim of science is not only to open a door to infinite knowledge and wisdom but to set a limit to infinite error.

Please revisit your accusation.

Footnotes:

1. In the field of science majority's opinion counts only when it matc...
2. 1990–1991 Philadelphia measles outbreak - Wikipedia
3. Vaccine woes