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Massimo Pigliucci
“[T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.”
Massimo Pigliucci, Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk

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message 1: by Arthur (new)

Arthur actually a beautifully articulated point, and something I, with my own tendency towards skepticism, am trying to embrace.


message 2: by Amanda (new)

Amanda Alexandre Arthur wrote: "actually a beautifully articulated point, and something I, with my own tendency towards skepticism, am trying to embrace."

I have the same problem. This is a lesson to us all.


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