Sentences with phrase «skeptical about camping»

I also used to be very skeptical about camping.

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He was pushed over the edge by their write - up of Jerome Corsi's latest paranoid fantasy (Obama - run concentration camps, no doubt intended for conservative «patriots»), but Jon's great sin was encouraging skeptical and critical thought about a series of beliefs that some have come to see as true despite all evidence to the contrary.

Is there a way to show enough respect to the opposing argument to engage people so that the litany of skeptical arguments that are tossed about can be sequentially addressed and put respectively into the camps of «confirmed», «need further research» and «debunked»?

This puts me roughly in the same camp as James Annan, though possibly I am less skeptical that there could be benefits for moderate warming, and I am probably more skeptical of claims about the supposedly significant level of damage from the current level of anthopogenically induced climate change.

I guess I'd add that this is understandable, given that the denier camp really doesn't have much actual science to use as ammunition or to build their arguments on, and thus they tend to wage their campaign by cherrypicking data, or seeking to attack narrow and often out - of - context passages found in scientific papers or in simplified postings about those papers found on sites like Skeptical Science.