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unknownpoliclimate

I don't think people should get to call themselves "skeptics" when their "skepticism" is rooted not in genuine doubt but in a devoted faith in Party position statements and Bernays/Hayek/Friedman's wilful misinterpretation of Adam Smith. Yes, that sentence is about climate change.

Genuine skepticism is deep epistemological questioning into whether we could really know what we think we know, and whether others can really know what they claim to know. One must question oneself most of all. Simply asserting others are wrong, skepticism is not.
Posted by Zac at 10:22 PM
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