A genuine skeptic is one who inquires with an open mind, using critical thinking and paying attention to the evidence. Unfortunately, some people who call themselves skeptics are in fact pseudoskeptics . They believe they know the truth already and dismiss any evidence as irrelevant. They are committed to the belief that minds are nothing but the activity of brains and are confined to the insides of heads. Hence psi phenomena are impossible. Minds cannot influence other minds at a distance, as in telepathy,
Skeptical About Skeptics shines a light on these actors with articles by top scientists and thinkers , revealing their faulty critiques and the underhanded methods they employ. We highlight controversies in specific fields of research and examine prominent pseudoskeptics and skeptical organizations .
In order to deal with cognitive dissonance, I argue that some skeptics use the same basic methods as religious fundamentalists [...who] often perform irrational cognitive contortions to dismiss evidence against their beliefs, such as when creationists try to explain the existence of fossils by saying that "God put them there to test our faith" (or by Satan to tempt us into unbelief). Similarly, if skeptics engage with the evidence for psi or conduct research, they might go to lengths to establish that posit
Skeptical About Skeptics
SCEPCOP - Scientific Committee to Evaluate Pseudo-Skeptic Criticism of the Paranormal
ARV 4 Fun! – Expanding consciousness with Associative Remote Viewing
Om Skeptikerskolan — Även en skeptiker kan förkastas
1001 Dusks | One White Crow is all it Takes…
Pseudo-scepticisme