Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
-- George Santayana
Cristóbal Bellolio tarkastelee SERRC-artikkelissaan Hugh Desmondin (2022) ajatusta populistisesta tieteenvastaisuudesta "rationaalisena skeptisisminä" status-epäluottamus-perustein, https://social-epistemology.com/2025/07/28/status-distrust-rational-skepticism-and-populist-objections-to-science-cristobal-bellolio/
Aiheesta on keskusteltu SERRCin lisäksi SE-journaalissa. Tällä kertaa episteemisen populismin nyansoitu luonnehdinta viehätti, samoin linkit aiempaan keskusteluun.
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Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Helen [Ἑλένη], l. 1617ff (412 BC) [tr. Coleridge (1891)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/81/
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MESSENGER: Nothing is more useful to mankind than a prudent distrust. [ἌΓΓΕΛΟΣ:σώφρονος δ᾽ ἀπιστίας οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν χρησιμώτερον βροτοῖς.] Informing Theoklymenos that Helen and Menelaos have escaped to Greece. (Source (Greek)). Other translations: Nought to man's welfare more Avails, than disbelief by prudence rul'd. [tr. Potter (1783), l. 1750ff] There's…
Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan — political or religious — who comes ambling along. The people have to be educated, and they have to practice their skepticism and their education otherwise we don't run the government, the government runs us.
-- Carl Sagan
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Let incredibly talented comedian Alex Falcone tell you what really (no joke there) happened at Roswell.
It has to do more with horny whales than UFOs. Really.
Sven Hansson has revised his SEP-entry on Science and Pseudoscience, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/
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Do Bigfoot creatures exist? I don’t know, but it strikes me as quite unlikely. It would be cool if they did, but that isn’t an adequate basis for believing that they do. And yet, it would not occur to me to claim that I know they don’t exist. How could I know that?
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