I'm ashamed of phys.org for even contemplating this nonsense, because critique is how genuine science advances--you weed out the snake oil salesmen with skepticism and demands for proof. If you know something you should confidently be able to prove what you know to the hardest of skeptics. That's how it's supposed to work.

♲ Matt Willemsen - 2024-04-20 02:46:17 GMT

Persistent questioning of knowledge takes a toll: New study supports theories that baseless discrediting harms
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For a superstitious lot such as our society I’m thinking Bermuda Air’s logo is a little too close to a triangle…if you know what I mean… #aviation #humor #skepticism

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?” sec. “Skepticism” (1949)

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"Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?" sec. "Skepticism" (1949) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in...

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

I think nobody should be certain of anything. If you’re certain, you’re certainly wrong, because nothing deserves certainty, and so one ought always to hold all one’s beliefs with a certain element of doubt and one ought to be able to act vigorously in spite of the doubt.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959)

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Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

I think nobody should be certain of anything. If you're certain, you're certainly wrong, because nothing deserves certainty, and so one ought always to hold all one's beliefs with a certain element of doubt and one ought to be able to act...

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Hackaday Links: August 13, 2023

Remember that time when the entire physics community dropped what it was doing to replicate the extraordinary claim that a room-temperature semiconductor had been discovered? We sure do, and if it …

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Another Room-Temperature Superconductivity Claim and Questions of Scientific Integrity

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Another Room-Temperature Superconductivity Claim And Questions Of Scientific Integrity

In early March of 2023, a paper was published in Nature, with the researchers claiming that they had observed superconductivity at room temperature in a conductive alloy, at near-ambient pressure. …

Great list of the top most harmful anti-experts of 2023 from one of my go-to podcasts #skeptic #skepticism https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4868

The Most Harmful Anti-Experts: 2023 Edition

Once again we round up the people working hardest to spread misinformation.

Le meilleur groupe de Funeral Doom #metal : leur dernier album ne déçoit pas et toujours ces orgues <3
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A quotation by Kendall, Paul Murray

The biographer does not trust his witnesses, living or dead. He may drip with the milk of human kindness, believe everything that his wife and his friends and his children tell him, enjoy his neighbors and embrace the universe — but in the workshop he must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina. With no respect for human dignity, he plays off his witnesses one against the other, snoops for additional information to confront them with, probes their prejudices and their pride, checks their reliability against their self-interest, thinks the worst until he is permitted to think better.

Paul Murray Kendall (1911-1973) American academic and historian

“Walking the Boundaries,” The Art of Biography (1965)

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WIST - Kendall, Paul Murray | "Walking the Boundaries," The Art of Biography (1965)

The biographer does not trust his witnesses, living or dead. He may drip with the milk of human kindness, believe everything that his wife and his friends and his children tell him, enjoy his neighbors and embrace the universe -- but in the...

A quotation by Snyder, Timothy

“What is truth?” Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society.

Timothy Snyder (b. 1969) American historian, author

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, ch. 10 (2017)

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