Letters to the Editor
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Every Issue is a Separate Empirical Question
I propose a radical solution to the denial question.
Let us posit a hypothesis about the events in question and then run experiments in the material world to see whether the hypothesis matches the data.
For the election this could be done with statistical analysis looking for highly unlikely irregularities. For AIDS denial we could run experiments comparing the T-cells of infected persons with those of the non infected and draw conclusions. For 9/11 we could run engineering experiments to see if the conspiracy hypotheses match materials response.
Overall, this method allows us to examine things scientifically instead of politically.
No hypothesis is wrong to propose. There is nothing wrong with hypothesizing that AIDS does not exist, as long as you follow through with the empirical analysis and find the overwhelming results.
And there is nothing wrong with hypothesizing that C02 forces climate as long as you look at the real world observations and realize that it's a dead end (computer models are not experiments, real world in the flesh measurements are).