We scientific skeptics, we skeptical inquirers, do it all. I am sure one of us somewhere is right now going after some extraordinary claim none of us has even heard of yet, studying it in depth and critiquing it with all the tools of science and skepticism. She—or he—will soon let the rest of us know the results (we hope in SI). Equally likely is that others are synthesizing complex information that might give us a better understanding of, say, how our brains work—both to achieve brilliant creativity or to deceive or elude us.
We are complex creatures, we human beings, and I think we all share an endless fascination for discovery and the unknown.
We are complex creatures, we human beings, and I think we all share an endless fascination for discovery and the unknown. And we continue to ponder how simultaneously some inquiring people can achieve great, provable insights while others go off the rails into fringe science or pseudoscience or— worse—antiscience or fake science.
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