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How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience

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How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience
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RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience
October 10, 2021 at 2:50 pm
(October 9, 2021 at 2:18 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:



Nice video for anyone with 10 or so minutes to spare.

But something she said really irks me: "The word 'skeptical' has suffered in recent years because a lot of science-deniers now claim to be 'skeptics.'"

And you know what? She's right. But I am loathe to call science-deniers skeptics. I think the skepticism inherent in science is way more rigorous than the skepticism of anti-vaxxers and such. And that's why I don't want to call these people skeptics. It's skepticism without rigor. And that hardly counts as skepticism at all in my book.

What do you think? Do science-deniers qualify as skeptics?

They absolutely do not qualify as skeptics. As you stated skepticism is a rigorous discipline applied to the world around you to ensure that you only accept what can be proven. Those who are science-deniers are nothing more than ignorant people who refuse to do any of the work required to be actual skeptics.
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How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience

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How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by vulcanlogician - October 9, 2021 at 2:18 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by LadyForCamus - October 9, 2021 at 2:30 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by brewer - October 9, 2021 at 2:37 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by AFTT47 - October 9, 2021 at 9:24 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Spongebob - October 10, 2021 at 8:30 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by no one - October 10, 2021 at 9:12 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Spongebob - October 10, 2021 at 11:09 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Jehanne - October 10, 2021 at 11:19 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by no one - October 10, 2021 at 11:45 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Jehanne - October 10, 2021 at 1:01 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Spongebob - October 10, 2021 at 1:30 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by no one - October 10, 2021 at 1:03 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by no one - October 10, 2021 at 2:39 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Spongebob - October 10, 2021 at 2:46 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by ThatNomad - October 10, 2021 at 2:50 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Anomalocaris - October 10, 2021 at 3:20 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Brian37 - October 10, 2021 at 3:27 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Spongebob - October 11, 2021 at 10:11 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Brian37 - October 11, 2021 at 10:22 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by HappySkeptic - October 11, 2021 at 10:55 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Ranjr - October 11, 2021 at 12:18 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Fake Messiah - October 12, 2021 at 12:54 pm
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Brian37 - October 13, 2021 at 11:56 am
RE: How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience - by Ranjr - October 13, 2021 at 12:11 pm

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