"There's an old saying; just because you're paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to get you. I have my own variation: just because you're insane that doesn't mean that things aren't slipping in unnoticed through dimensional gateways..." ~ Christopher Knowles (h/t to The Daily Grail for quote.)



Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Lesley at Grey Matters: "Skepticism or Debunkery?"

Lesley has a very good article on the difference between skeptics and debunkers in her Grey Matters column for Binnall of America.
Of debunkers, Lesley comments:
They are not skeptics, but they do confuse people by pretending to be.

Indeed! And this:
There is something, though, that makes debunkers far more annoying to me and that is that they cloak themselves in skepticism and in science. Many of them being neither skeptic nor scientist. Whereas the "true believers" are thought, by many, to be crazy and pretty much ignored in most serious discussions, debunkers are not.

I could go on, but read Lesley's article for yourself.

1 comment:

Lesley said...

Thanks Regan! Glad you enjoyed it!