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kentauros

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14. I thought I'd read at one time that Skinner was.
Tue Jan 7, 2014, 10:17 PM
Jan 2014

However, he's always come across as the "healthy skeptic", or the kind we can respect as they respect us. Some of our members here are of the "healthy skeptic" variety

The ones that have been starting these fights are what I (and others) have termed "unhealthy skeptics." That's just as we've defined them: closed-minded, over-the-top skepticism, deifying their fellow skeptic heroes (Randi, Sagan, Dawkins, et al), and generally thinking in black & white terms while dismissing anything counter to that or that suggests "maybe there's something to this worth researching."

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