*denyers*
Denier is a measure of fabric weight. Example: 1000 denier cordura.
But yeah, I agree. It pisses me off that we give so much credence to a minority of opposing voices these days.
Like the thing the other day with a few thousand people shoving NZ Air into dropping the ad with the swimsuit models.
As far as this whole proven science thing goes, John Oliver did a dandy little rant about it a while back.
I can't post it here and stay in the lines, but my favorite part was something like, "Hats exist. It's proven fact. You can't say hats do not exist."