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The terms Holocaust denial and AIDS denialism describe the denial of the facts and the reality of the subject matters, [4] and the term climate change denial describes denial of the scientific consensus that the climate change of planet Earth is a real and occurring event primarily caused in geologically recent times by human activity. [5]
Denial, in colloquial English usage, has at least three meanings: the assertion that any particular statement or allegation, whose truth is uncertain, is not true; [ 1 ] the refusal of a request; and
Plausible deniability is the ability of people, typically senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command, to deny knowledge of or responsibility for actions committed by or on behalf of members of their organizational hierarchy.
Historical negationism, [1] [2] also called historical denialism, is falsification [3] [4] or distortion of the historical record. This is not the same as historical revisionism, a broader term that extends to newly evidenced, fairly reasoned academic reinterpretations of history. [5]
The election denial movement in the United States is a widespread false belief among many Republicans that elections in the United States are rigged and stolen through election fraud by Democrats. Adherents of the movement are referred to as election deniers .
During the first year of Trump’s presidency, however, denials jumped to 13%, spiking to 24% in 2018, and 21% in 2019, according to a 2022 report from the National Foundation for American Policy ...
Some 31 million Americans have Medicare Advantage plans. But because they routinely deny coverage for necessary care, they threaten rural hospitals, say some CEOS.
Mental illness denial or mental disorder denial is a form of denialism in which a person denies the existence of mental disorders. [1] Both serious analysts [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and pseudoscientific movements [ 1 ] question the existence of certain disorders.