The thing with skeptical movement is that people take it personally because they are investors in their bad thoughts.
Now, how You Read this sentence depends on whether you consider yourself part of the skeptical movement or not. The “people” who “take it personally” can be skeptical or fully dependent on your personal status. they They have bad ideas and beliefs that are essential for their identity and they You cannot let them go I Know that my thoughts and beliefs are well round, rational and prohibited.
they Closed mind, however I I am open thinking.
right? RIIIIIGHT …
Over the years, I wrote a lot of criticism of the skeptical movement and those involved in it, but in the end, the skeptical movement is a good thing. Doubts are a method or tool that I use to understand things based on the available evidence. I use doubts, along with atheism, secularism and humanity to try to follow a rational approach in life in general and all the ills and joys that bring them. Immediately, it is clear that atheism, secularism and humanity are ideologies (although atheism is technically the lack of belief), and doubt is not ideology. However, for me, atheism, secularism and humanity are compatible with my skeptical approaches and I hold these situations because Doubts have been used to review the available evidence in a rational way. Secularism and humanity tells you what I believe in, for atheism tells you what I do not believe in, and doubts show you how you have reached there.
The skeptical movement is largely concerned with the activity, and for me, the measurement of successful activity depends on the results in relation to goals. For example, a goal Campaign 10:23 It was to stop homosexual treatment that was funded by the national health service, which was. The purpose of part of my skeptical activity was to stop the locality Topic of the street -based faith Telling passers -by that they can treat all their health and disability through prayer, which she felt was partially successful because they were no longer allowed to make such claims freely.
In any case, to boil it … the scope of skeptical movement enhances monetary thinking in the face of illogical and innocent claims, and varies in seriousness and risks, and confronting these claims when necessary or possible. Success is measured differently by different activists, but it is largely determined by the success of these nonsense allegations, and the extent of support explanations by scientific evidence and their publication.
Since I participated for the first time, I had a number of crises of confidence in the skeptical movement. I think I may have participated in the skeptical movement when I was about 20 years old. I was still trying to discover everything when I suddenly became a participating host of a popular skeptical podcast called good discontent. I was still turning my head about the concepts of dual studies and logical brings while conducting an interview with people on this podcast and trying to review modern news stories in a critical way alongside the most knowledgeable hosts. If this podcast is launched today, then I think I will be a completely different and better host than I was at that time. I often felt that I was trying to catch others in the skeptical movement, and I felt like a little skeptical. I think I have always been an analysis of movement because I was always wondering if I was really able to be part of it.
The most recent confidence crisis is related to the spread of transfersopia through the media in the United Kingdom and its associated modern heads. Some individuals who have been associated with the skeptical movement in the United Kingdom (even some activists who have great appreciation) left themselves as via phobia. My first reaction was that if there could be transfobia inside the movement, then the movement suffers from a problem. However, after a lot of thinking and discussions with other skeptical activists, I know that the intestinal reaction to blame the movement was irrational. Perhaps, perhaps? But at the end. I think it was the result of a somewhat treason by those who considered them good people, as it turned out, they were fanatic.
Individuals who were considered part of the movement who are now publicly through Ruba did not ignore themselves not only fanatic, but also as people who are unable to use critical thinking skills mainly to doubt. If the scope of your skeptical activity only extends to those ideas You I think it is irrational, you do not use doubts correctly. A decent skeptical is able to accept that they are able to be irrational. If you cannot analyze evidence and data in a way that may conflict with your current beliefs, you indicate that you are using a closed approach. To do this is a request for confirmation of your strong beliefs by choosing cherry data.
To behave in this way and then enhance non -scientific ideas makes you the opposite of skeptical!
By expressing criticism and arguments full of challenges, the skeptical activists not only to confront dangerous ideologies that harm people’s activity, but also show other people who are open to rational and irrational views on the subject of what they are. With any topic – whether it is ghosts, Reiki or the fact that women crossing women – there will always be people who do not know enough to reach a good conclusion on a topic, and these people who can benefit a lot of good skeptical activity and communication.
This good skeptical activity does not always discuss the person who carries an illogical or promotes harmful and non -scientific ideology. Instead, it promotes the facts activity while promoting the sounds of those who can educate better. It is easy to think that because people do not meet together to express the condemnation of the recently stored fanatics, this means that their silence makes them complicit, while this is actually not true.
However, although silence does not make automatic complicit, sometimes it is a comfort for some that should not be ignored. I previously mentioned that I was often decisive in this blog for skeptical movement and some of the people participating in it. My conversion was not always perfect on this front. For example, I know that I am A critical piece written on James Randy shortly after his death Many people are annoyed and disturbed, including some who have been very respectful and considered friends. This bothered me for a long time and I apologize that this was offensive. I did not remove the piece, because I think it was the issue of timing, not the content.
The goal of the piece (and others that I wrote about Randy in the past) is that as a movement that dominates critical thinking and enhances critical thinking, the skeptical movement needs recognition when it is promoting people at the present time, ideas, ideas and dangerous ideas. Improvement is a dangerous idea. It is not an ideology that is reached through rational thinking, it is not based on evidence, and it is active harmful. Either in a historical and contemporary environment.
The goal of my critical article was that you can be a good, skeptical activist who challenges non -scientific claims and promotes rational thinking, but if you also believe in support or voice support for a dark and worrying thing like birth offspring or social Darwinism, it is a cloud that must relate to you and benefit from doubt about your important skills.
I have ever thought of whether my approaches to express my fears are correct. He acknowledged that James Randy’s work was the way many people got to know doubt and skeptical movement. I also understand that he was a dear and friend of many. I even exchanging emails with him sometimes regarding planning some skeptical activity. However, it was frustrated to see many of the people I respect for a long time to Randy when I know they were aware of his disturbing ideas. For me, it seemed to be a very privileged concession on their part to ignore the bad in favor of goodness. It may be the issue of perspective.
Not everyone has the privilege of ignoring people who promote birth control or transvers Check yourself is uncomfortable and difficult, but it is necessary when you aim to enhance a rational approach.
I suspect that I will have a lot of crisis of confidence in the skeptical movement in the future, as well as the crisis of trust in myself as skeptical. I see that I am part of the skeptical movement as a continuous long educational process, and I will not like all the lessons. In the past, I said that I am no longer part of the skeptical movement For various reasonsBut a final towards my supernatural research is directly related to the movement, which I must acknowledge. The skeptical movement is not perfect and will not be at all because it is a human endeavor.
When you participate in the skeptical movement, it is very easy to convince yourself that you are a rational person who does not reach irrational conclusions. However, to be human means that it is difficult often to reflect our doubts on ourselves and the way that we Information is processed. This is why the open mind is a prerequisite for developing critical thinking skills. Since we are human beings, those involved in skeptical movement will have things in life that are not very rational, and this is good as long as we realize our mistakes in thinking and learning from them. Changing your position in the face of new information or evidence is a large part of maintaining an open mind. For this reason I wrote this day to realize that the skeptical movement is a good thing despite its many faults. To go forward, I cannot promise that I will not write the blog posts that criticize, but I hope that when I do it, readers understand where my fears come from.
I understand dual studies and logical bites now, but after all these years, I am still trying to discover everything, try to catch up with the knees, and the truth is told … I still feel like I am skeptical.
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