Pseudoscience Scaremongering

The strategic use of exaggerated threats about pseudoscience to justify censorship, exclusion, intellectual orthodoxy, and the suppression of dissent. Pseudoscience scaremongering treats every unconventional claim as a threat to civilization, every alternative approach as the edge of a slippery slope to barbarism, every deviation from consensus as the first step toward the end of reason. It's the op-ed warning that homeopathy will destroy medicine; the campaign claiming that questioning climate models is equivalent to climate denial; the rhetoric that treats any skepticism of scientific orthodoxy as an attack on science itself. The scaremongering serves power, not truth—it protects established institutions from challenge by painting all challenge as existential threat, making critique itself seem dangerous.

Example: "He claimed that teaching students to question scientific consensus would destroy Western civilization—not argument, but Pseudoscience Scaremongering, using exaggerated threat to shut down inquiry rather than engage it."

Pseudoscience Scaremongering by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

Anti-Pseudoscience Scaremongering

The specific practice of using fear about the dangers of pseudoscience to justify intellectual conformity, suppress dissent, and protect orthodoxies from challenge. Anti-pseudoscience scaremongering takes legitimate concerns about misinformation and inflates them into existential threats—treating every alternative health practice as a public health crisis, every unconventional claim as the death of reason, every question about consensus as the return of barbarism. It's the public intellectual who warns that questioning vaccines will bring back plagues; the science communicator who suggests that entertaining any criticism of established science undermines all of civilization; the skeptic who treats every believer in pseudoscience as a threat to humanity. The scaremongering is effective precisely because pseudoscience can cause harm—but by inflating every instance into catastrophe, it makes proportionate response impossible and critique of orthodoxy unthinkable.

Example: "He compared people who read alternative health websites to those who enabled Nazi atrocities—Anti-Pseudoscience Scaremongering at its most extreme, using the specter of ultimate evil to delegitimize any deviation from medical orthodoxy."

Anti-Pseudoscience Scaremongering by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

jerb 

well known from south park
rednecks get angrry that future folk took there jobs so they yell
They took ouare jerbs!

Them future folk took ouare jerbs!

jerb by Jimberley Kim April 7, 2005

Cheeks 

An Irish phrase meaning shit, derived from ass
(Not to be confused with the literal description of one's buttocks)

"Did you hear the song Aylek$ dropped?"
"Hardly. Her music is absolute cheeks."

"My boyfriend say LaFlame is cheeks."
"Tell your boyfriend I said it's his mixtape that's cheeks."

Cheeks by thecartisan April 26, 2020

sans sheriff 

Lawless use of fonts or typography, with no regard to aesthetics or legibility

I'm putting this CV straight in the bin. Written totally sans sheriff.

sans sheriff by Jamarley July 3, 2019

Breadhead 

Someone who is addicted to obtaining money and building wealth. A money addict and fanatic. Breadheads often work more than one full-time job, and some even participate in illicit activities to "obtain the bread".

A breadhead is like a crackhead, but for money instead of crack.

Breadhead by 🅱️ U S 3 4 8 March 30, 2022

Stink lines

As seen in illustrations or cartoons: Wavy, vertical lines rising above a person, place or thing. Denotes a foul odor.

"You didn't put enough stink lines on your picture of the teacher."

Stink lines by Athene Airheart March 14, 2004