Sentences with phrase «true skeptics in»

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Still, he says that McGaugh is often unfairly portrayed as a true believer in MOND when he is really a skeptic.

Both Mawle and Novakovic ground their performances in reality, the city skeptics unwittingly turned into true believers of Celtic secrets.

The show has been described as a «comedic X-Files «and sees Robinson playing Leroy Wright, a hilarious skeptic, and Scott playing Max Allison, a genius true believer in otherworldly beings.

Starring Craig Robinson (The Office, This Is the End) and Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation, Big Little Lies), Ghosted is a comedy about the partnership between two polar opposites — a cynical skeptic and a genius «true believer» in the paranormal — who are recruited by a secret government agency, known as The Bureau Underground, to save the human race from aliens.

I am a skeptic, in that when something appears too good to be true, it usually is.

This statement transported me back to my arrival in New York, working for the late Budd Hopkins, who, as a New York School artist and (in the mid-1980s) an emerging investigator of reports of alien abduction phenomena, often told me that a true skeptic finds it impossible to deny the possibility of anything.

The only good «you» could do in communicating with me is to improve my effectiveness with «your» true target audience, the convincible skeptic.

This does not mean that the scientific skeptic is necessarily a scientist who conducts live experiments (though this may be the case), but that the skeptic generally accepts claims that are in his / her view likely to be true based on testable hypotheses and critical thinking.

Eric, thanks for the even - handed treatment of this «new» climate data, but I remain an anthropogenically - caused climate change skeptic because of the extraordinarily high number of unproved variables that must be shown to be true, in order for man's puny efforts at controlling the climate to have any long term effect.

U2 sums up the «skeptic - problem» pretty well in their classic Sunday bloody sunday with the line; «It's true we are immune, when fact is fiction and [Fox?]

Often, fiction is not just fiction in the public mind, and the objective of the skeptics is to spread doubt, not engage in true debate.

Will you correct your false impression, or will you just carry on regardless in true «skeptic» style?

They are true skeptics that know the incompleteness of the knowledge, and try to find and extend the small islands of knowledge in the huge ocean, while the skeptics think that everyone follows the second model and that they are in the vanguard, when they emphasize the holes in the «Swiss cheese» model of knowledge.

I would hope he would at least consider the concept that true skeptics are the polar opposite mindset of both deniers and the «true believers» in CAGW, and that true skeptics can both provisionally accept AGW and / or CAGW as well as reject either.

There is a wide variety of honest skeptics in the middle ranges, and that, so long as they are true skeptics (and only they know if they are or not), they all have the characteristic of only provisionally accepting their position, and therefore are still honestly open to new data that might alter their position, and in fact, seek it out.

He began his study of climate as a true skeptic, taking the time to put in the effort to truly learn everything he could about the science before recognizing that it is something that will greatly affect the life, prosperity and happiness of his daughter, her peers, and even more so any grandchildren that may some day follow.

Both are driven by emotion and ideology, closed to reason, blind to anything the would alter their world view, prone to see things in black / white, us / them, good / bad terms, and exact opposite of the true skeptic.

A true skeptic would say it is possible, but (then fill in an idea that also explains the data, or something that explains why they think the data are wrong but coincidentally confirms the control knob).

Koonin is pretty thin soup for actual skeptics in the broader debate even if he is setting off conniptions for true believers in the mob fired up for the election purpose which is why it has been so orchestrated;

True skeptics understand that given the type and level of uncertainty (arguably most of what we deal with in climate other than direct observations), uncertainty is not «quantifiable» as in a pdf or something, but should be characterized in other ways.

It was a well established mechanism a century ago that is now coming true, so when «skeptics» say attributing things in hindsight can't be trusted, it makes a difference when it was actually forecast by a theory that existed before any of it happened, doesn't it.

I can be tolerant of «true» skeptics but the word denialist is the way the rest SHOULD be described because they are in a state of denial when the accusations of fraud come out...

You are asking, in effect, that skeptics simply «shut up and sit down,» that they concede as being true the most flawed and unlikely assumptions of the alarmist movement, and that they endorse policies that are wholly unnecessary and extremely costly.

While in science, true skepticism is welcome, the climate «skeptics» play primarily to a political and media audience and some have received funding from the «Climate Destruction Sponsors».

I am just being a «skeptic» in the true sense of the word and asking people to provide actual evidence for the claims that they make.

I apologize for asking for actual evidence to justify a claim... but you know, I am a «skeptic» in the true sense of the word and actually like to see a claim backed up by evidence.

spangled drongo, The latest paper on climate sensitivity adds to the long and growing list of issues which shows that skeptics are justified in their skepticism and that climate true believers have vastly over stated the reasons for their catastrophism.

Even if all that Michael Mann says is true (the skeptic in me always holds back on accepting the full position of anyone who is passionate about his subject), I do have one question.

The course doesn't waste time wringing its hands over whether or not to call deniers «deniers» — a true skeptic, Cook explains in his welcome video, «doesn't come to a conclusion until they've considered the evidence,» while «someone who denies well - established science comes to a conclusion first, and then discounts any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.»

My own reason for arguing any point on Climate Etc. is not to persuade the skeptics, who have persuaded me that they are beyond persuasion, but merely to put my own views on record in a setting where there are sufficiently strongly held opposing views as to show that my view is at least not vacuously true but requires more thought in order to accept it.

Watch the global warming issue zooming by in a superficial manner and all the horrific claims — increasingly extreme weather events, imperiled polar bear populations, skeptics who are paid to lie about the truth of all of this — sound like they are true.

Behind closed doors, climate scientists talk like real people (skeptics), in a way no parroting True Believer would have ever had nightmares about.

Ironically, when I said that it's neither true nor fair to paint skeptics with the same brush one applies to denialists, you are one of those I had in mind.

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In other words, they smoothly think themselves from a premise that is true (but oversimplified and without context — like most skeptic arguments themselves), to what they want to keep believing.

Yes, as I said a few posts above, skepticism allows you to entertain an idea as true (trust, in a way) and then the skeptic examines the evidence (verify).

In my previous blog post, I showed a window into the world of far - left environmentalist reasoning, using the exact illustration of how Desmogblog co-founder James Hoggan immediately believed Ross Gelbspan's «the science is settled / skeptic scientists are industry - corrupted shills» core talking point as literally true upon first reading it, never reading alternative science assessments or doing the most basic fact - checking to see if Gelbspan's accusation was true.

He's no fan of eco-alarmism, but he is a skeptic in the true sense of the term — someone who demands convincing evidence but is willing, when presented with such evidence to change their views.

I am seeing some really bad, statistically flawed «connect the peaks only» graphs from cherrypicked time periods on the skeptic side in order to manufacture something that statistically is not true.

In fact, I will add to your point: If you look around, you will rather frequently see that while many «skeptics» talk about how «skeptics» are not monolithic in belief (something that is certainly true), many times «skeptics» frequently speak of «skeptics» as if they are monolithic (e.g., by saying that «skeptics» don't believe X or Y), or selectively exclude some «skeptics» from their definition of «skeptic» because of inconvenient beliefs (e.g., «Sky Dragons») in an attempt to describe «skeptics» in some uniform fashioIn fact, I will add to your point: If you look around, you will rather frequently see that while many «skeptics» talk about how «skeptics» are not monolithic in belief (something that is certainly true), many times «skeptics» frequently speak of «skeptics» as if they are monolithic (e.g., by saying that «skeptics» don't believe X or Y), or selectively exclude some «skeptics» from their definition of «skeptic» because of inconvenient beliefs (e.g., «Sky Dragons») in an attempt to describe «skeptics» in some uniform fashioin belief (something that is certainly true), many times «skeptics» frequently speak of «skeptics» as if they are monolithic (e.g., by saying that «skeptics» don't believe X or Y), or selectively exclude some «skeptics» from their definition of «skeptic» because of inconvenient beliefs (e.g., «Sky Dragons») in an attempt to describe «skeptics» in some uniform fashioin an attempt to describe «skeptics» in some uniform fashioin some uniform fashion.

It's truer to say that assertions like yours («the supposed 20th century warming») appear only in comments from self - described climate - change skeptics.

I differentiate between true skeptics — those who are still unconvinced that humans are causing climate change (I'm not sure how anyone with a truly open mind can be in this category anymore, though!)

Being a scientist means being a professional skeptic (in the true sense of the word).

To be sure, «skepticism» in the climate realm has become synonymous with refusal to accept anything despite good evidence, but that is a distortion of the word and an affront to true skeptics.

It's pretty ironic that in an article on pseudo-skepticism you use a quote from Richard Cameron Wilson attacking 9/11 skeptics like myself as not practicing true skepticism.

However, a true skeptic would also consider the (arguably most likely) possibility that the discrepancy is at least in part, if not primarily due to the UAH data being biased low.

In order to be considered a true skeptic, one must consider all lines of evidence with an open mind, including those which we may find inconvenient.

This may be true (though a bit naïve, for anyone who has been in a university environment and sought research funding), but if pro-AGW researchers are not swayed by the funding, then it should be equally true that AGW skeptics are not swayed by much smaller amounts of money flowing to them.

In some eyes I have no doubt it does, and even before my admissions now I have no doubt I was dismissed as a «serious» or «true skeptic».

More than 38 thousand people have put down money to reserve a 3 - wheeled car from Phoenix based start up Elio Motors, but a delay in production has divided the group of supporters into two groups: true believers and skeptics.