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Guest Post: Legitimate Skepticism
This is a guest post by Dave123. What distinguishes proper skepticism from fatuous doubt? In some part comes down to who is expressing the sentiment. That is, who the person is determines if they are a...
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Climate Science Is Based On Evidence, But Science Denial Is Based On Faith
“Wikipedian Protester” by XKCD Anyone who wants to debate a science denier often needs a thick skin, especially concerning topics like global warming. They often hurl words like leftist, socialist,...
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Watts Up With 97 Hours Of Consensus
The so-called sceptics like Anthony Watts often have some very interesting predictions and speculations about global warming and climate change. Especially the predictions they make when dealing with...
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Zwarte Piet And The Dutch Culture Wars
Zwarte Piet by Sander van der Wel A little over a year ago I wrote about Zwarte Piet and the controversy that had flared up surrounding him. Though the aim of that article was to give some context to...
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Science Denial Always Involves A Component Of Conspiratorial Thought
Stephan Lewandowsky Attacks on scientists and their research are very common in the public debate surrounding global warming. The attacks don’t need to make any sense nor is there a need for merit to...
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Another Scientific Consensus Conspiracy
The biggest threat to the denial of any scientific fact is evidence showing that there is a scientific consensus. Scientists are sceptical and questioning by their very nature. They love to poke and...
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Judith Curry: What Is Skepticism, Anyway?
For a while now I’ve been really busy with different projects so it took me some time to finally respond to Judith Curry’s blog post. She wrote a response to my Skeptical Science article The Skepticism...
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Scepticism And Pseudo-Scepticism
Tackling what scepticism is and explaining how to recognize pseudo-scepticism is one of the main driving forces for articles on Real Sceptic. A lot of the misinformation and incorrect scientific claims...
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The Rise Of Skeptical Science
Everyone at Skeptical Science spends a lot of their time reading the scientific literature and listening to experts. Without that we wouldn’t be able to write all the material that’s published on...
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Science Deniers Again Try To Discredit John Cook And Skeptical Science
Science deniers never cease to amaze me with the tactics they use to discredit research and people. So they cannot win the debate on the science as it’s not on their side. This causes al kinds of...
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