Meta-Ethical Praxis of Science
Ethical skepticism is a form of meta-ethical philosophy which serves specific benevolent/knowledge goals. The ethics of science (a fortiori of skepticism as well) relate therefore primarily to the study of meta-ethics – and have little to do with morality or virtue. They focus on specific standards of praxis within the scientific community at large.
There exist three domain-forms of ethics. The first is normative ethics, the domain of appearances and correctness from a social perspective.
Normative Ethics – objective practices of morality and social codes of conduct (virtue, religious, moral, identity, personal conduct, etc.)
However, since one of the entire purposes of this blog is to decry pretense, false virtue, concealed religion and identity warfare (the abuse of ethics), we choose to focus instead on more professionally applicable contexts of ethics. More specifically, those of meta-ethics and praxis of science and skepticism:
Meta-Ethics – the study of the disciplines and philosophical bases behind professional standards of practice (skepticism, objectivity, consequentialism, deontology)
Applied Ethics (Praxis) – the decision theory behind professional standards of practice or social codes of conduct (law, procedure, codes of conduct, standards of practice) 1
While I am an upstanding and conscientious person in my private and professional life, one should not infer from the term ‘ethical skepticism’ a personal boast of morality (normative ethics), as those who are ignorant of graduate level philosophy are prone to accuse. Rather one should comprehend ethical skepticism as an intellectual and practical allegiance to an actual long held standard of science. After all, this is what ‘ethics’ means, the decision theory behind adherence to standing professional standards of practice (meta and applied ethics or praxis ethics). Ethical skepticism therefore, is a meta-ethical philosophy which serves specific benevolent/knowledge goals and results in specific modifications to some of our applied ethics (pseudo-skepticism, institutional propaganda and cultivated ignorance). Especially applied ethics which have been in error.
The context of the moniker I use, ‘The Ethical Skeptic’ or the general practitioner descriptive in the form ‘ethical skeptic’, are set in the impersonal; as in the case of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for instance. The context of ethics employed in this blog is deontological in as far as the adherence to standards of protocol, such as the real and complete scientific method, are regarded as both sufficient and necessary to direct our knowledge development actions. An idempotent neutral practice, characterized by an aversion to tampering with observations and data in favor of one’s ontology. Yet, still consequentialist from the perspective that the outcomes of value and clarity manifest as the signature handiwork of those who practice such ethics. In my profession and research skepticism is the substrate of science, and I feel it is abused when applied in lieu of science by agenda-schooled journalists, stage magicians, propaganda bloggers, psychologists and party/social activists.
One can make the serious contention that skepticism is itself, the philosophical deliberation of the meta-ethics of science. However, skepticism must be watched and held accountable too if it errs in consequentialist outcome, attempts to manipulate the outcomes of science itself, embargoes disliked topics or begins to step in and act in lieu of science. Hence the need for ethical skepticism – to watch the watchers.
There exists a contrast of relative movement between where the skeptic movement was 40 years ago, and where it resides now – versus the relative change in practice inside of the so-called pseudosciences during that same timeframe. It is skepticism which has had to be taught how to behave over the last 40 years, and not the pseudosciences. More people believe in a litany of pseudoscience than ever have before. I believe this be be precisely because of the mistaught version of skepticism which was hatched in the 60’s and 70’s.
Skeptics have had to be taught how to behave over the last 20 years in particular.
As a result of their malpractices so-called fringe ideas, both valid and invalid, have grown dramatically in subscribership.
If such such a fringe subject bears validity, then of course its cynics were always in error.
If the fringe subject is invalid, its ensuing popularity too is the fault of the pseudo skeptic – and for the same reasons.
Fake moon landing and flat earth proponents have learned to employ the very same methods which
have been taught by fake skepticism in the targeting of disliked ideas over the last 60 years.
The chickens of failed philosophy have come home to roost.
And the blame for this resides squarely with our floundering skeptics.
These practices are not simply unethical because of the negative consequentialist outcomes in terms of subscribership to fringe topics like fake moon landing and flat Earth theories, but as well – from the history that it has indeed been skeptics who have proved to require the most re-education in this process of deliberation, and ironically not the ‘credulous’. Finally, the specific practices which have resulted in this are detailed and cataloged by The Ethical Skeptic. Skeptics have failed us both from ontological and consequentialist perspectives. What follows is the reason for all this. Fake virtue does not work. Club quality does not work. Normative ethics can serve to provide a clever disguise for agency of malice and oppression.
Exploitation of Ethics Reveals the Necessity of Meta-Ethics
This principle of a policing club such as social skepticism introduces several problems identified by ethical skepticism regarding prima facia virtue and normative ethics:
Virtue Signaling
/philosophy : pseudoscience : normative ethics/ : the ironic principle entailed in the social observation that, prima facia ethics or normative ethics, virtue, religious precepts, morality, victimhood, identity warfare, personal conduct codes, etc. can, and often do serve as a cover for unethical agency masquerading under such pretenses. An action performed in accordance with socially correct pressure, or inside a visible boundary of political correctness, which is performed by a person wishing to show that they are on the good side in a political argument. Symbolic virtuous acts or positions adopted solely to build political power or exempt one from being accused of racism, bigotry, misogyny, greed or any of the canned talking attack points currently being fad utilized by the political left.
Exoentropy of Normatives
/philosophy : ethics : meta-ethics/ : The effort to enforce order inside a controlled subsystem, inevitably and ironically serves to increase the level of disorder or entropy surrounding it. Moreover, systemic dynamics can serve to impart unethical consequentialist outcomes which arrive as a result solely and wholly from individual efforts to maintain normatives of propriety or the appearance of such propriety; especially when coupled with the gaming and exploitation potential therein. This is also known as exoentropy, wherein a decrease in entropy of a subsystem leads further to an even greater entropic contribution to its surroundings or surrounding systems – resulting in an overall entropy or loss to the whole. An example of this can be found in the observation known as Goodhart’s Law and Goodhart’s Law of Skepticism.
Goodhart’s Law – when a specific measure becomes the sole or primary target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Goodhart’s Law of Skepticism – when skepticism itself becomes the goal, it ceases to be skepticism.
Qualitas Clava Error
/philosophy : fallacy : demarcation of skepticism and pseudo-skepticism/ : club quality error. The presumption on the part of role-playing or celebrity-power-seeking social skeptics that their club or its power, is important in ensuring the quality of science and scientific understanding on the part of the broader population. The presumption that external club popularity and authority, lock step club allegiance and presumptive stacks of probable knowledge will serve to produce valid or quality outcomes inside scientific, rational or critical thought processes. The pretense of encouraging skepticism, while at the same time promoting conclusions. Such thought fails in light of time proven quality improvement practices.
This problem of a single standard of skepticism (Science Based Medicine, The Skeptic’s Dictionary, CSICOP, Skeptical Inquirer, etc.), becoming in itself the goal – or in a single measure (p-value) acting now in lieu of science elicits the central issue with regard to scientific ethics today. And in my estimation therefore, the central issue regarding skepticism as well. They have simply replaced the old-boys’ networks with a new club – however a club which is much more prone to witch hunting. One example of such single measure chicanery is outlined inside a very popular Aeon Essay on Science from 2016, by Siddhartha and Edwards.
Since the Second World War, scientific output as measured by cited work has doubled every nine years. How much of the growth in this knowledge industry is, in essence, illusory and a natural consequence of Goodhart’s law? It is a real question.
The increased reliance on quantitative metrics might create inequities and outcomes worse than the systems they replaced. Specifically, if rewards are disproportionally given to individuals manipulating the metrics, well-known problems of the old subjective paradigms (eg, old-boys’ networks) appear simple and solvable. Most scientists think that the damage owing to metrics is already apparent. In fact, 71 per cent of researchers believe that it is possible to ‘game’ or ‘cheat’ their way into better evaluations at their institutions.
~ Science is Broken, Siddhartha Roy, environmental engineer and PhD candidate at Virginia Tech and Marc A Edwards, Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. 2
The ethics of science (a fortiori of skepticism as well) relate therefore primarily to the study of meta-ethics – and have little to do with single indicator morality or virtue. Surface measures can be gamed by forces pretending to be or manipulate science. ‘Doubt’, ‘critical thinking’, ‘focus on the data’ – can all serve as virtue costumes which agency adorns to play the role. Moreover, even truly moral and virtuous players can indeed serve to produce highly unethical outcomes, so prima facia virtue is unreliable as a predictor for ethical outcome. 3 Meta-ethics relates to the study of decision theory and how it impacts the overall quality of science inside a hyper-growth institutionalized vertical. Accordingly, the ethics of science are defined by premier ethics philosophers, biochemist Adil Shamoo, PhD and bioethicist David Resnik, PhD as such: 4
a. Disciplined standards of conduct
b. Discipline of study of standards of conduct
c. Decision science incorporating standards of conduct
d. Resulting state of character which undertakes such disciplined decisions.
Below are several standards of scientific ethics, developed in part from leading discipline materials on the ethics of science, with my own experience inside the subject incorporated therein. These ethical norms of science are re-developed from the following resources: 5 6
Paul Humphreys, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science; Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2016; pp. 255-9
Resnik, David B., The Ethics of Science: An Introduction (Philosophical Issues in Science), New York: Routledge, 1998
It is the purpose of the PhD program, and the examination by review board, dissertation committee and advisor, to ensure that the PhD candidate grasps and has developed the skill in applying the following principles TO SELF FIRST and not others, before they are allowed to adorn the moniker of scientist. Skepticism has mistakenly taught the less mature among us, to only examine others under cherry picked versions of these principles.
The Meta-Ethical Praxis of Science (and Skepticism)
Integrity – responsibility with regard to both the soundness and the critical implications of one’s scientific research. Understand what constitutes data versus information versus intelligence and its probative potential versus its eventual reliability (not simply current). Understand the differing implications of various types of inference and what to do with an outcome which may not be well accepted by the community at large.
Openness – transparency of process undertaken, sources employed, assumptions made and models utilized, along with the sharing of data, results, methods and materials with other researchers – and yes, even laymen and curious stakeholders.
Diligence – maintaining good records of data, experimental protocols, and other research documentation. Take appropriate steps to recognize and mitigate potential bias and error. Subject your own work to critical scrutiny and do not overstate the significance of your results. Disclose information sufficient to allow the critical review of your work.
Freedom – support freedom of inquiry in the laboratory, research environment and in the field. Do not obfuscate scientific arguments or data, nor prohibit scientific or layman researchers from engaging in investigation and debate.
Due Credit – identify and allocate credit for prior art, investigative and analytical work, where such credit is due.
Respect for Intellectual Property and Prior Art – do not plagiarize nor steal intellectual property. Respect data sources, copyrights and patents.
Discretion – maintain the confidentiality of materials and data sources which are entrusted under such constraints or in any case where doubt exists as to such necessity. Maintain anonymity (such as in peer review, personal data or subject identity) unless identity is specifically warranted (publication) or requested.
Stewardship – take care with data, resources, test subjects, results, databases, samples, equipment, supplies, and physical research or anthropological/paleontological sites.
Development and Competence – maintain and enhance your competence inside your discipline of study. Increase awareness of the research field and impacted stakeholders. Take appropriate steps to deal with incompetence, or premature conclusiveness inside your discipline of study. Take appropriate steps to identify and hold accountable, those who fail in their burdens of service inside the public trust.
Serves Inside the Public Trust – it is necessary that science not be viewed as an activity in lieu of governance or any form of governance proxy, and must exclusively exercise its work inside the public trust.
Respect for Stakeholders – treat collaborators, data collection specialists, student and interns, and other peer and colleagues with respect. Treat impacted stakeholders with tolerance and the respect due those who will bear the burden of your outcomes. Do not discriminate against colleagues nor exploit them or their work efforts.
Respect for Humanity/Suffering – respect the rights, welfare and dignity of human or animal impacted stakeholders, research subjects, and protect them from harm or exploitation (except where exclusively proven to be unavoidable). Communicate risk in advance, in a clear and objective fashion – allowing human stakeholders to opt out, unless final proof (not simply consensus) is determined as to their necessity to comply.
Social Responsibility – prioritize research which is likely to benefit society or reduce suffering. Avoid causing harm to animals, the economy, a nation, humans or the environment. Science and scientists should never engage in activity to bypass/usurp the governance of a nation in a desire for application of their goals. Engage in extracurricular activities which serve to benefit society.
The Human Right to Know – humans bear the right to knowledge about their origins or concerning any threat to their safety, well being or livelihood. Public access to study artifacts serving to illuminate mankind’s social, morphological and genetic history should not be denied based upon property conventions of any haplogroup, culture, owner, propriety, government, nation, intelligence group or institution. Knowledge is a basic human right; and in particular, it is a basic human right to access freely the knowledge of where mankind came from and the pathway which brought us here as a species.
Legality – comply with international, national and local laws. Comply with regulations and institutional policies – unless they compel you to violate the above ethics.
These are the standards by which an ethical skeptic regards their science. Praxis, not virtue.
epoché vanguards gnosis
——————————————————————————————
How to MLA cite this blog post =>
The Ethical Skeptic, “Meta-Ethical Praxis of Science” The Ethical Skeptic, WordPress, 25 Oct 2018; Web, https://wp.me/p17q0e-8rl
- Wikipedia: Ethics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
- Siddhartha, R., Edwards, M.; Aeon Essays: Science is Broken; 2016; https://aeon.co/essays/science-is-a-public-good-in-peril-heres-how-to-fix-it
- Siddhartha, R., Edwards, M.; Aeon Essays: Science is Broken; 2016; https://aeon.co/essays/science-is-a-public-good-in-peril-heres-how-to-fix-it
- Shamoo, Adil. E. and Resnik, David B.; Responsible Conduct of Research: 2. Ethical Decision Making, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
- Paul Humphreys, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science; Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2016; pp. 255-9
- Resnik, David B., The Ethics of Science: An Introduction (Philosophical Issues in Science), New York: Routledge, 1998
Related
October 25, 2018 - Posted by The Ethical Skeptic | Ethical Skepticism | ethics, meta-ethics, praxis, skepticism
“Refreshing to new and weary seekers of truth alike. If you claim to be a skeptic and have not read The Ethical Skeptic, you risk echochamber irrelevancy.” -TRB
“I suspect that I possess neither the lifetime nor competencies to grasp all that is said therein; nevertheless inside I also suspect greatness.” -Tech Journalist
“An extraordinary work. Masterpiece.” -LS
“Needless to say the income loss and doom spin over Covid-19 had left my family in a state of despair. Then one night my daughter happened upon the tweets of someone called ‘The Ethical Skeptic’. As we read the nightly updates from her iPad the darkness slowly began to give way to hope. TES, my family and I will never forget this.” -TC
“Essential for any philosophy of science course. The pageantry of pseudo-skepticism is abused to belie its truly corrupt core. What we lacked are the frameworks necessary in pinpointing the very flaws and deceptions many of us have sensed, but have been unable to articulate. That is, until now.” -ADR
“Sir, I hope you realize the high quality of material you have produced here. Hopefully you will choose a world stage someday and take personal credit for it. The material is that good.” -AOD
“This site/blog/whatever is messing with my mind and I love it.” -SR
“I love that blog by The Ethical Skeptic. It punches effectively and by the end I was cheering!” -PhD Physicist
“I am a military intelligence instructor. Honestly, your knowledge structure of deception ought to be standard teaching inside graduate level US military intelligence courses. Do you mind if I use your material to do so?” -JWH
“I was asked by a colleague, just whom I regarded to be a signature philosopher of our time, as viewed say a century into the future; to which I responded, ‘I don’t even know his name, other than ethical skeptic’.” -JP
“[One of the] best non Cathedral empiricists outside Nassim Taleb.” -BH
There exists a pro-science, educated and rational movement of conscience, on the part of people just like you and me. Professionals who apply skepticism daily in their STEMM disciplines; who nonetheless are raising a warning flag of concern. Welcome to my blog. Within its pages, I hope to illustrate genuine skepticism, or what is called Ethical Skepticism. Indeed, its mission is to promote the wonder of science through a contrast of authentic skeptical discipline, versus its distorted, pseudo-intellectual and socio-politically motivated counterfeit. I am a graduate level science and engineering professional who laments the imprisonment of science by control-minded special interests and bullying dogmatic social epistemologists. As you survey my blog, hopefully you will encounter ideas you’ve never personally considered before. Indeed, its mission is to foster foremost a discerning perspective for us all on the Cabal of pretenders who abuse and seek control in the name science. Science based upon a flawed philosophy called social skepticism.
What is Ethical Skepticism?
A series in parts, which defines the philosophy, tenets and structure of Ethical Skepticism
.
The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation
A compendium of over 2600 fallacies, errors and methods of corrupted thinking commonly employed to obfuscate and deceive
.
The Appeal to Skepticism Fallacy
The formal and informal fallacy of deceptively promoting one’s self and ideals through pretense of skepticism
.
The Real Ockham’s Razor
It is plurality, and not the simplest explanation, which bears merit in professional research and the actual scientific method
.
Sol-Nihilism and The Ten Endamnedments
The compulsory set of core religious beliefs misrepresented as skepticism, atheism, free thinking and science
Related
Top Posts & Pages
- For Me to Win You Must Lose Everything
- The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (to Our Peril)
- The Pitfalls of Electric Vehicles as Climate Change Panacea
- Ethical Skepticism - Part 5 - The Real Ockham's Razor
- About this Blog
- A New Ethic
- Caesar's Wife Must be Above Suspicion
- What is Social Skepticism?
- How to Detect an Evil Person
- Glossary A - B
-
Recent Posts
- For Me to Win You Must Lose Everything
- The Pitfalls of Electric Vehicles as Climate Change Panacea
- Caesar’s Wife Must be Above Suspicion
- How to Detect an Evil Person
- The Definitive Guide to Ethical Skeptic’s (TES/ES) Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (2019) Analysis
- Post Stockholm Syndrome
- The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (to Our Peril)
- Incidente en La Islote Bermeja
- Oh the Quackery!
- 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
- Qualifying Theory and Pseudo-Theory
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsBlog Admin
Tags
Atheism celebrity skeptics deception define ethical skepticism ethical skepticism fake skepticism fake skeptics false skepticism food fraud Nihilism novella Ockham's Razor oligarchy pathology pathos Pseudoscience religion sceptic science Scientific Method skeptic skeptic forum skepticism skeptics socialism social skepticism the skeptic The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation What is Ethical Skepticism