Opprobrium:
- the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
- a cause or object of such disgrace or reproach. [Dictionary.com]
Noted in H. Sidky’s “The War on Science, etc,” Skeptical Inquirer (March / April 2018, print only):
Ironically, given that this enterprise was about epistemological egalitarianism and human dignity, those who did not accept postmodern premises were labeled racists, sexists, right-wing oppressors, colonialists, and the instruments of a defunct materialist worldview (the terms of opprobrium were endless).
