Posted: Feb 01, 2020 12:42 am
I think genuine scientific scepticism is a case of saying "I don't know" rather than "everyone else doesn't know" - not even when they are taking the effort to understand and review. If they don't know how can they say that someone else doesn't? First and foremost scientific scepticism seems to be an error checking technique used by working scientists to avoid embarrassing themselves.
Faux sceptics seem to insist that everyone else is wrong is the default, until and unless they are personally convinced. It becomes a way of rejecting anything they can't, don't or refuse not to understand - which looks more fallacious to me than trusting authoritative experts.
Faux sceptics seem to insist that everyone else is wrong is the default, until and unless they are personally convinced. It becomes a way of rejecting anything they can't, don't or refuse not to understand - which looks more fallacious to me than trusting authoritative experts.