In the controversy that followed the prince's remarks, his most staunch defender was professor John Taylor, a scholar whose work I had last noticed when he gave good reviews to the psychokinetic (or whatever) capacities of the Israeli conjuror and fraud Uri Geller. The heir to the throne seems to possess the ability to surround himself—perhaps by some mysterious ultramagnetic force?—with every moon-faced spoon-bender, shrub-flatterer, and water-diviner within range.
Christopher HitchensTag: controversy credulity gullibility scepticism monarchy 2010 british-monarchy british-royal-family charles-prince-of-wales frauds john-g-taylor psychics uri-geller
Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
David HumeTag: reason belief fairy-tales rationality superstition skepticism evidence scepticism nonsense enquiry
Johnson is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By contrast, most skeptics opposed to him are selective skeptics, applying their skepticism to the things they dislike (notably religion) and refusing to apply their skepticism to the things they do like (notably Darwinism). On two occasions I’ve urged Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic Magazine, to put me on its editorial board as the resident skeptic of Darwinism. Though Shermer and I know each other and are quite friendly, he never got back to me about joining his editorial board.
William A. DembskiTag: religion evolution skepticism darwinism scepticism bias critical-thinking macro-evolution macroevolution
Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.
Frank R. StocktonTag: society scepticism
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The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome.
Adebowale OjowuroTag: religion atheism scepticism freethought ethics-and-moral-philosophy new-book
You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.
Tim MinchinTag: humor scepticism alternative-medicine pseudoscience quackery
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Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.
William ShakespeareTag: wisdom doubt thinking knowledge philosophy scepticism
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
Denis DiderotTag: truth skepticism scepticism
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
G.K. ChestertonTag: truth reason scepticism
No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason and capacity
David HumeTag: scepticism
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