Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions

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Some parapsychologists, such as Jessica Utts and Dean Radin, repeatedly declare that the evidence for anomalous cognition is compelling and meets the most rigorous scientific standards of acceptability. Others such as Dick Bierman, Walter Lucadou, J.E. Kennedy, and Robert Jahn, openly admit that the evidence for psi is inconsistent, irreproducible, and fails to meet acceptable scientific standards.

Anomalous Cognition? A Second Perspective

You seem to keep defining being a skeptic as being someone who simply denies a claim without examining the evidence. It's not hard to see how you conclude that skepticism is the same as closed mindedness, as you've more or less defined it that way. But a skeptic is simply someone who withholds belief until sufficient evidence for the belief is presented. You yourself do the same. In a perfect world, we would have complete information and the competence to fruitfully examine any claim. But we don't have such, so, in those areas where we lack such, we must depend upon some filter to evaluate the evidence. Choosing not to decide is itself a decision. You can remain agnostic about some claims, but not others. If you have children then you must make a decision about what to believe about vaccines. Failure to make a choice is by default a choice. You seem to have equated shortcuts such as relying upon the consensus of scientific opinion as being the same as being closed minded. It's not. You simply want to equate the two in order to smear that consensus.