Michael Shermer: Why People Believe Weird Things

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism - and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Science helps us avoid dogmatism: basing conclusions on authority rather than logic and evidence.

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.

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