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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;myownprivy, post: 2696685, member: 84588&quot;]My guess is he only belittles people whose ideas should be criticized. I know that&#039;s how I operate, and from reading his posts, he seems to too. That belief that uniformed skepticism is equal to informed skepticism is incredibly threatening much of the progress human civilization has made. </p><p><br /></p><p>Examples:</p><p>Someone&#039;s kid has autism and was vaccinated, therefore the parent is skeptical of vaccines and therefore believes there is possibly a connection between vaccines and autism.</p><p><br /></p><p>That conclusion and that skepticism of that parent is NOT equal to researches applying natural scientific skepticism to the claim that vaccines are safe. They are skeptical of the initial claim that vaccines are safe, so they test them time and time again to determine if they are. Since there has been no evidence that they are unsafe, the informed consensus is that vaccines are safe. </p><p><br /></p><p>One is uniformed lay person skepticism with zero basis in research or fact. The other is natural scientific skepticism that is applied to testing whether something we believe is right or wrong and that has resulted in no evidence that we should remain skeptical of the safety of vaccines.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another example is how you read the news. As a lay person, sakata, you can and should apply skepticism toward a claim a newspaper article makes. You should then read other publications to see if they generally agree. Do experts in that field come to the same conclusion as the article you read? Are those experts actually credentialled in areas they should be? Do they experts cited have track records of honesty? Do the articles agree with each other? What is the track record of that news organization in factually reporting things? </p><p><br /></p><p>If you think like this, skeptically, you won&#039;t be likely to be fooled or misled. However, if the skepticism you apply is to say &quot;to hell with them all, they&#039;re all part of the establishment and they are all trying to mislead me&quot;&nbsp; then you are apply irrational skepticism and distrust.</p><p><br /></p><p>So then my question to you will be: ok, what is your evidence that they are all in cahoots to mislead you? Then the onus is on you to prove that claim.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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