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#1B SKEPTIC this web page is no longer maintained click here for newer version 4.0 I believe that knowledge is generally accompanied by some degree of uncertainty and doubt. I like where doubting can lead: to questioning, debating, re-considering, testing, new knowledge, and eventually to the truth. I am suspicious of faith-based beliefs. In deciding what to believe, I prefer reason and critical thinking to emotion and wishful thinking. In putting down "true believers" and treating them with contempt I lack humility and can be arrogant. Alternate Concise Characterization with Wikipedia Entries: is able to justify beliefs, values exercise of reason, Rationality questions assumptions, values Critical Thinking values Scientific Skepticism values Religious Skepticism summary Wikipedia article: Skepticism Numerical Characterization with TFJD code: 3312 Numerical Characterization with Emotional Volatility VI index: 18 |
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More to Explore --Worldview Theme #1B: Skeptic |
| Debunkers (from online encyclopedia) |
| Questioning (from online encyclopedia) |
| Worldview Watch issue #31: God, Science, Faith |
| What is a Skeptic? |
| Skeptic Magazine (concerned with "extraordinary claims, revolutionary ideas, and the promotion of science") |
| Skeptical Inquirer Magazine |
| links to websites on skepticism, analytical, rational thinking |
| Doubt: A History, by Jennifer Michael Hecht (reviews of this book: "a stunning chronicle of unbelievers") |
| Dissent -- Magazine of Independent Social Thought |
| Tutorial on Problem Based Learning: Taxonomy of Socratic Questioning (from Fermi Lab website) |
| Learning Questioning, by Jamie McKenzie (this article is a resource for both teachers and students) |
| NoBeliefs.com ( website "for freethinkers"; entertaining, offensive depending on what you believe) |
| The Skeptic's Dictionary |
| The Skeptic (British magazine looks at pseudoscience claims from skeptical perspective) |
| Skeptical Investigations (skeptical of the skeptics!) |
| Skeptical Information Sources (from Quackwatch) |
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Links to "Articles in Opposition to Creationism" maintained by Lorence Collins (47 links to articles listed as of October 2018) |
| "When media sceptics misrepresent our climate research we must speak out" by Myles Allen and Richard Millar (from The Guardian September 21 2017) |
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"Systemic Bias" by Richard Muller (Essay 2017 contribution to Edge.org) |
| "The Theology of Donald Trump" by Peter Wehner (oped piece from NY Times July 5 2016 ==> skeptical about Trump motivation) |
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"Why I left
Mormonism" (skeptical about Mormon religious foundations)
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| "Critique of PEAR Remote Viewing Lab Experiments" by George P. Hansen, Jessica Utts, Betty Markwick (skeptical about paranormal phenomena) |
| The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer (read excerpts of this 2011 book) |
| "Ten Ways Christians Tend to Fail at Being Christian" by John Shore (on The Huffington Post, May, 7, 2010) |
| "Adam's Maxim and Spinoza's Conjecture" by Michael Shermer (in 3/2008 Sci Am. re: disbelief in the brain) |
| Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero ( PBS Frontline program, that asks "Where was God on September 11th?) |
| The Method of Doubt (another look at DesCartes' method of examining supposed truths) |
| Mistakes Were Made, by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (2007 book about justifying foolish beliefs, etc) |
| quotes related to skepticism |
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