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Why Are Secular Skeptic Communities Failing To Address Sexual Crime? https://theestablishment.co/why-are-secular-skeptic-communities-failing-to-address-sexual-crime-26cddb5ce63b
Fri 20 Apr 2018 11:27:19 AM CEST archive.org
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The overwhelming evidence suggests that Shermer, according to Zvan, is a predator. “But what we get instead from skeptics,” she said, “what they’re calling ‘skepticism’ is them trying to pick apart the story of that evening and saying, ‘Well, this little tiny detail doesn’t make sense,’ as in it does make sense in their head—that it’s not the way they think the story should go. And that’s not skepticism.”

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Commentaries: On Pseudo-Skepticism https://www.anomalist.com/commentaries/pseudo.html
Fri 20 Apr 2018 10:57:06 AM CEST archive.org

Since "skepticism" properly refers to doubt rather than denial--nonbelief rather than belief--critics who take the negative rather than an agnostic position but still call themselves "skeptics" are actually pseudo-skeptics and have, I believed, gained a false advantage by usurping that label.

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Since the true skeptic does not assert a claim, he has no burden to prove anything. He just goes on using the established theories of "conventional science" as usual. But if a critic asserts that there is evidence for disproof, that he has a negative hypothesis --saying, for instance, that a seeming psi result was actually due to an artifact-- he is making a claim and therefore also has to bear a burden of proof.

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