The belief that ideas and people labeled "pseudoscientific" constitute an
existential threat so grave that they justify active suppression, violence, or the dismantling of civil liberties. This extremism moves beyond debate and deplatforming to advocate for state censorship, the ruination of careers and lives, or even physical attacks against proponents of heretical ideas. It mirrors the
totalitarian impulses of the worst ideological regimes, justifying its own illiberalism as a necessary defense of "Truth." The extremist becomes a mirror image of the
conspiracy theorist they hate, seeing a monolithic, evil enemy that must be destroyed by any means.
*Example: "His online posts escalated from mocking flat-earthers to anti-pseudoscience extremism. He began calling for government agencies to raid and shut down
alternative health clinics, for the families of vaccine-hesitant parents to be investigated by CPS, and celebrated when a prominent homeopath's clinic was firebombed,
calling it 'a cleansing fire for reason.' He wasn't protecting science; he was waging a holy war, with reality itself as
the casualty."