Skeptic magazine editor Michael Shermer (The guy from the
Baloney Detection Kit video) lays down the skeptical, scientific approach in
this Scientific American article:
The principle of positive evidence applies to all claims. Skeptics are from Missouri, the Show-Me state. Show me a Sasquatch body. Show me the archaeological artifacts from
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A few years ago I wrote a rather lengthy article exposing the methods and hypocrisy of the professional pseudoskeptics. You may find some of my arguments interesting.
http://www.suppressedscience.net/skepticism.html
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Hahahaha, yeah, like all that empirical evidence for God, homeopathy, and creationism!
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I remain a critic of homeopathy, simply because the study abstract you cited ended with this wonderful little ditty:
We are however unable to explain our findings and are reporting them to encourage others to investigate this phenomenon.
Did the researchers find something? Yes. Do they know what they found? Nope. They have discovered not "empirical evidence," but as they openly admit an anomaly they cannot explain. As you assert, these researchers may well have discovered the opening clues into what may in the future become important science; we don't know what will happen. What they lack today is a theory that ties the anomaly to the world around them.
Homeopathy, however, is trotted about as a theory, fully fleshed with proponents and practitioners spouting the same dogmatic reasoning Benevenist pioneered, one based on poorly-defined "essences" and probably driven by a mistrust in ( ... )
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Thanks for the links.
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