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Skeptic
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A community for taking a critical look at pseudoscience, quackery, and boldfaced BS.
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence." ~ David Hume
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Carl Sagan's Nine Precepts of Skeptical Thinking:
- Confirm the reality (independent of the status quo).
- Encourage debate on the evidence by proponents of all points of view.
- Avoid appeals to authority.
- Recognize that there is always more than one hypothesis.
- Do not cling to a hypothesis simply because it is yours.
- Attaching a numerical quantity is key to discriminating hypotheses.
- In a chain of argument, all the links must work—not just most of them.
- Everything else being equal, the simplest explanation is the most likely.
- Proposals that cannot be proven or shown to be false do not have much scientific value.
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A New Reality Show Will Pay Cash if Players Can Convince Experts the Earth Is Flat
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As states loosen childhood vaccine requirements, health experts’ worries grow • Stateline
(stateline.org)
(USA)
Some lawmakers across the country are working to sidestep vaccine mandates, not just for COVID-19, but also for measles, polio and meningitis. Public health experts worry the renewed opposition to childhood immunizations will reverse state gains in vaccination rates. Meanwhile, cases of some diseases, including measles, have increased across the country.
We’re against the government telling us what to do with our own bodies. – Louisiana Republican state Rep. Kathy Edmonston
“Conservatives have really moved towards that medical freedom position of where people need to be really educated about whatever vaccine that they are taking,” said Tennessee state Sen. Bo Watson, who sponsored his state’s legislation.
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