The Ethical Skeptic

Recent Posts

• Oh the Quackery!
• The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (to Our Peril)
• The Distinction Between Bias and Agency
• Unethical Employment of Intellectual Property
• Carl Sagan was Just Dead Wrong
• The Future of Ethical Markets
• Epoché Vanguards Gnosis
• How to Argue Like a Child
• Inflection Point Theory and the Dynamic of The Cheat
• The Art of Knowing Nothing
• The Scientific Method
• Of Pretend Sleep and Authentic Dreams
• The Earth-Lunar Lagrange 1 Orbital Rapid Response Array (ELORA)
• Latest Trends in Acceptance of UFO’s – Not Good News for Fake Skeptics
• A Statistical Profiling of Celebrity Wannabe ‘Scientific Skeptics’
• The Dual-Burden Model of Inferential Ethics
• The Demarcation of Skepticism
• Epistemological Domain and Objective Risk Strategy
• Inference of Necessity – Confirmation vs Linear Affirmation
• The Plural of Anecdote is Data
• A Poem of Learning
• Torfuscation – Gaming Study Design to Effect an Outcome
• The Roger Principle
• How and Why We Know What We Know
• What Happens After?
• Nelsonian Inference and Cultivated Ignorance
• The Map of Inference
• Adoy’s Principle – or the Principle of the House Hedge
• Rumors of Philosophy’s Demise are Greatly Exaggerated
• Heteroduction – When Classic Inference Proves Unsound
• Distinguishing Scientific from Academic Study
• Six Vaccinial Generation Trends Fueled by Concealed Profits
• The Hermit of Nosnix Who Couldn’t be Fooled
• The Elements of Hypothesis
• Skeptics Need You – But You Don’t Need Them
• The Apothegm Makes the Poison
• Embargo of The Necessary Alternative is Not Science
• The Essential Mind of the Religious Pitch
• The Contrathetic Impasse – Key Sign of Heavy-Handed Agency at Play
• Exotic Nature of FRB 121102 Burst Congeries
• The Spectrum of Evidence Manipulation
• Authority Credulity: Antipode to Conspiracy Theory – But Even Worse
• Meta-Ethical Praxis of Science
• Reduction: A Bias for Understanding
• The Fermi Paradox is Babysitting Rubbish
• Ten Common Misconceptions About Science
• The Lyin’tific Method: The Ten Commandments of Fake Science
• Panduction: The Invalid Form of Inference
• Malice and Oppression in the Name of Skepticism and Science
• Epoché and The Handedness of Information
• Ketosis Lab Notes – Mitochondrial Suppression Disorder
• Quashing Study of Ancient Artifacts Violates a Basic Human Right
• Abuse of the Ad Hoc ‘Fallacy’
• Interrogative Biasing: Asking the Wrong Question in Order to Get the Right Answer
• No You Are Not a Critical Thinker
• When Skepticism is a Symptom of Cognitive Impairment
• Parents’ Basement Skepticism
• No You Are Not a Scientist
• The Nature of Elegance
• Ignosticism
• When Simple is Just Simply Wrong
• Singularity Covenant – The Brane and The Bull
• Plural Arguing – I am Not Convinced That Even You Believe You
• Not So Fast: Anatomy of a Skeptic Hack Job
• The Riddle of Skepticism
• Critical Attributes Which Distinguish the Scientific Method
• It Does Not Take a Conspiracy
• The Role of Critical Path in Logic, Systems and Science
• A Handy Checklist for Distinguishing Propaganda from Actual Science
• The Opposite of Skeptic: Apparatchik
• The Dark Side of Doubt
• Vaccinials – The Betrayed Generation of Americans
• ‘Anecdote’ – The Cry of the Pseudo-Skeptic
• 42 Critical Knowledge/Experience Qualifications of a Philosopher – Ancient or Modern
• The Sophistry Fallacy
• The Ten Endamnedments of Sol-Nihilism
• 8 of 10 Self-Made Millionaires Were Not ‘A’ Students. Instead, They Share 1 Trait
• Qualifying Theory and Pseudo-Theory
• Key Warning Signs You are Dealing with a Flim-Flam Artist
• Calorie-Based Diet Pseudo Science Proves False
• The New Debunker: Pseudo-Skeptic Sleuth
• The Appeal to Fallacy
• The Eagle, the Ape, the Horse and the Lion
• Denial and Pseudo-Skepticism are Not the Same Thing
• Intuitionism: Inference versus Impulse
• The Three Types of Reason
• Tyflocracy: The New Art of Oppressive Governance
• Ethical Skepticism – Part 9 – Skeptive Dissonance
• Sign Posts on The Road Less Traveled By
• Ten Reasons People No Longer Find Skeptics Credible
• Formal vs Informal Fallacy and Their Abuse
• Proof Gaming
• Discerning Sound from Questionable Science Publication
• The Tower of Wrong: The Art of Professional Lying
• The Ten Indicators of Methodical Genocide
• A Word About Polls
• And I Have Touched the Sky: The Appeal to Plenitude Error
• Contrasting Deontological Intelligence with Cultivated Ignorance
• Nurturing the New Mind: The Disruptive Nature of Ethics
• The Warning Indicators of Stacked Provisional Knowledge
• The Nine Features of Great Philosophy
• Spotting the Humpty Numpty
• The Joy of Sleight-of-Hand Manipulation
• Differentiating Scientific Literacy from Social Propaganda
• How Glyphosate Practices Serve to Increase Our Diet Risk Exposure
• Lies of Which I Disabused Myself Along the Way
• Islam, Corruption and Socialism All Relate in Direct Proportion to Human Suffering
• Ethical Skepticism – Part 8 – The Watchers Must Also Be Watched
• What Corporations Do When Bankrupt of Ideas/Ethics
• The Inverse Problem and False Claims to ‘Settled Science’
• Abuse of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
• The War Against Supplements Continues to Revel in Harmful Pseudoscience
• Ethical Skepticism – Part 7 – The Unexpected Virtue of Allow-For Thinking
• Never Never Land: Where we Send our Vaccinial Generation to Forget They Even Exist
• The Skeptic’s Guide to Dismissing Public Claims of Illnesses
• Foundation Works on Ethical Skepticism
• Deception Through Abuse of the Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Fallacy
• Major Flaws Within the Neurodiversity Movement
• When Observation Gives Way to Data-Centric Only Science We All Lose
• When a Social Skeptic Claims to be ‘Science Based’
• Garbage Skepticism: The Definition
• The Correlation-Causality One-Liner Can Highlight One’s Scientific Illiteracy
• Irish Pennants: The Nature of Flawed versus Sound Definitions
• The Nature of Argument
• The Ethical Skeptic’s Argument Assessment Checklist
• No Promenade in the Savage Dance
• The Kuhn-loss Interplay of Scientific Revolution and Resilience
• The Warning Signs that a Social Epistemology is at Play
• Islam Judaism and Christianity: Time to Remove and Renounce Your Holy Verses Celebrating Violence
• The Celeber Cavilla Fallacy
• Are You a Cynic? You Might be Surprised
• The Best Snake Oil is One You Don’t Even Realize is Being Peddled
• Ethical Skepticism – Part 6 – Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say
• No, I Won’t Back Down
• The Dark Side of SSkepticism: The Richeliean Appeal
• On Being a Young Person Contemplating Joining a Faith
• SSkeptic Weapon Word Top 25
• The Malicious Social Lie called Privilege
• The (Ethical Skeptic) Definition of God
• Deconstructing the Rhetoric around What Constitutes Pseudoscience
• Gaming the Lexicology of Ideas through Neologism
• Popper Demarcation Practice and Malpractice
• The Art of Rhetoric
• How You Persuade Makes All the Difference
• How You Say It Makes All the Difference
• Corber’s Burden of Skepticism and The Omega Hypothesis
• The Burden of Proof (in Gumballs)
• Oh, Those Darned Narcissists
• The Five Types of Null Hypothesis Error
• Wittgenstein Error and Its Faithful Participants
• SCEPTRE
• Rationality is Not What False Skeptics Portray
• The Rising Age of the Cartel: Your Freedoms Were Simply an Experiment
• A Mediocracy in 4.0: Discounting College Acceptance Aptitude Testing is a Grave Error
• Aristotle: Discerning the True Skeptic
• Why Sagan is Wrong – The Fake Skeptic Detection Kit
• If the New Religiously Unaffiliated are Not Choosing Atheism, Then Just What are They?
• Diagnostic Habituation Error and Spotting Those Who Fall Its Prey
• Nihilism’s Twisting & Turing Denial of Free Will
• The Deontologically Accurate Basis of the Term: Social Skepticism
• Have You Grown Weary of This? There is a Better Path
• A New Ethic
• Why I Don’t Golf
• The Lifecycle of Fake Skepticism – What’s the Harm?
• An Internet Pre-filtered by Authorized Knowledge is a Mistake
• The Misrepresented and So Called ‘War on Science’
• Yes Skeptics Have a PR Problem – Social Skeptics
• When Consensus is Nothing But Pluralistic Ignorance
• The Sorwert Scale of Fake Skepticism
• The Critical Role of Sponsors in the Scientific Method
• An Official ‘Thank You’ to Science Based Medicine
• No You are Not an Atheist, You are a Nihilist
• Methodical Cynicism: The Lyin’tific Method
• Methodical Cynicism: The Presentation
• Your Self is a Mere Illusion of Neurofunction
• Bad Science Being Bad
• The MiHoDeAL Claim to Knowledge
• Ethical Skepticism – Part 4 – The Panoply of Belief
• Latent Demand for Critical Thinking about Skepticism
• The Urgent Need to Reform the ABCD Seed Cartel Science Around Glyphosate
• Hell Hath No Punishment Like Watching Your Children Suffer
• The Magician’s Rush of Fake Skepticism
• Ethical Skepticism – Part 2 – The Riddle of Skepticism
• The Four Indicators of Personal Ethical Objectivity
• How Social Skepticism Obviates the Scientific Method
• Contrasting the USFDA and Social Skepticism Definitions of ‘Homeopathy’
• The Hypocrisy of the Socialist Anthropogenic Global Warming Agenda
• The Ethical Skeptic Statement of Faith
• Why Atheism is Not a Religion
• Margold’s Law and The Ethics of Skeptics
• In Defense of Social Skeptics
• How to Spot a Fake Skeptic
• Endocrine-Immune-Biome Disruption and the Exorbitant Cost of Social Skepticism Induced Bliss
• How to Tell When a SSkeptic is Lying
• Dogmatism and SSkepticism are the Top Disincentives for Students Considering a STEMM Career
• Scientific American Cozies Up to Social Skeptics
• Exploiting Our Elitist Delusion Over Procedural Acumen
• When SSkeptics Block Science the Public Must Force Change Anyway
• Essential Eyewitness Testimony is Highly Reliable Despite What SSkeptics Claim
• Skeptical Thinking does not Constitute Expert Opinion
• The Ten Pillars
• Sol-Nihilism
• The Futility of the Bill Nye-Ken Ham Debate on Creationism
• The Corrupt Oligarchy of Social Skepticism
• Nihilism: Mandatory Pseudo Scientific Naturalism
• The Appeal to Skepticism Fallacy
• The Bookend Lies of Institutional Health
• Ethical Skepticism – Part 3 – The Knowledge Development Process
• The Scientific Method is Not Simply The Experimental Method
• Promotification Pseudoscience
• What is the Difference Between Ethical and Social Skepticism?
• Ethical Skepticism – Part I – The Octavus Thesauri and What it Means to Be an Ethical Skeptic
• The False Dichotomy of Bookend Lies
• What is Pseudoscience?
• The Binding Role of the Lie of Allegiance
• The Habits of an Institutional Liar
• The Real Cost of SSkepticism’s Science Entitled Medicine
• Anatomy of a Media Hack Job
• Ethical Skepticism – Part 5 – The Real Ockham’s Razor
• Detecting an Apologist
• Real Scientists Disagree with SSkeptics About World’s Top Concerns for the Future
• The Nine Principles – MIT
• The Art of the Hoax
• Denial of Discovery Science
• The JREF Million Dollar Challenge was His Greatest Magic Trick of All Time
• Entitlement and College Cost Bubble
• The Penultimate Set Fallacy
• Toxic Diet Pushes US to Higher Diet Related Mortality Rate than Peer Countries
• Faith is Not Pseudoscience
• The Culture of Cheating
• Cultivation of Ignorance
• Critical Thinking – The False Definition
• What is Social Skepticism?
• What Constitutes a Religion?
• Ethical Skepticism: Value
• Ethical Skepticism: Clarity
• Observation vs Claim Blurring
• Fake-Hoax Obfuscation
• What a Fool Believes He Sees
• Leveraging the Unknown
• Critical Blindness
• Fact/Ambiguity Dipoles
• The Pseudoscientific DRiP Method
• Anti-Homeopathy Propaganda Proves False
• Kuhn Denialism
• Pork-Barreling/Associative Condemnation/Stooge Posing Fallacies
• The Scientific Method and Pseudo-PseudoScience
• The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation
• The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation: Misrepresentation through Authority
• The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation: Misrepresentation of Self
• The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation: Mischaracterization of Groups
• The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation: Misrepresentation by Assumption
• The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation: Misrepresentation by Argument
• The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation: Misrepresentation of Science
• The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation: Misrepresentation through Locution or Semantics
• The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation: Mischaracterization of Opponents
• The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation: Misrepresentation of Evidence or Data
• The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation: Misrepresentation by Bias or Method
• Title 17 U.S.C. § 107 “Fair Use” Act