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Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
I hate preaching to the converted. If you were Buddhists, I’d bash Buddhism. But you’re skeptics, so I have to bash skepticism. I’m a science journalist. I don’t celebrate science, I criticize it, because science needs critics more than cheerleaders. I point out gaps between scientific hype and reality. That keeps me busy, because, as you know, most peer-reviewed scientific claims are wrong.
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Excellent article.
People like simple answers. People don't really want to think, only to be fed what they're supposed to think. That's the real problem.