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Feast your eyes on this abomination of an article, titled “The Perils Of Skepticism.”

some commentary from Reddit:
“Deepak, the overwhelming majority of scientists the world over are skeptics—using a conservative definition of skeptic, no less—and it should be painfully obvious why that is: Without skepticism, there would be no need for progress. Skepticism is the recognition of ignorance, a necessary ingredient for development of any science, and that recognition is exactly inverse to faith. Faith does nothing for the search for truth, in fact it is most likely one of the greatest hindrances to scientific inquiry. Your argument sucks.”

edit, another:
“4) Skepticism can certainly abide speculative thinking, so long as there is some underlying reason, data, or rationality. Wild, baseless, or unsupported speculation is another matter.

5) Skepticism and a sense of wonder are in no way mutually exclusive - the skeptics simply set a high bar before they are willing to admit the potential truth of an assertion. Once that bar is met, however, wonder abounds.

6) All the rampant speculation in the world will not advance human kind one whit without some serious, grounded, skeptical minds culling the wheat from the chaff and turning the reasonable, practical speculation into applicable knowledge.”

Pretty much.

We learn new things by asking “You sho’ bout that?”
Then we test
and learn from the results.

technology.

Some bullshit right here. Well said, Dan!

“I’m not sure what a triple standard is… but this sure feels like one: Adam Lambert kissed a boy at the AMA’s and presumably liked it. Good Morning America dropped him. CBS played a clip of Lambert’s AMA kiss but blurred it out—which they didn’t do when they showed a clip of Madonna’s open-mouthed kiss with Britney Spears at some other awards show. Now Good Morning America has invited Chris Brown—who beat the shit out of a girl and got away with it—to perform. So in case you’re keeping score at home: It’s not okay for a gay male pop stars to kiss a male dancer. It is okay for a straight male pop star to beat the shit out of his pop star girlfriend.”