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Author Giving the Devil His Due, Host Science Salon Podcast, http://skeptic.com/science-salon/  Publisher Skeptic Magazine, Presidential Fellow Chapman University.

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    Michael Shermer‏Verified account @michaelshermer 15 Aug 2018

    Guiding principle of Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine @gorskon If by skepticism you mean automatic denial of a claim's veracity regardless of evidence, straw-manning instead of steel-manning, mobbing & virtual signaling, we're not the right mag for you https://shop.skeptic.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=SUBS&Store_Code=SS&Product_Code=subscription&Category_Code=S …pic.twitter.com/MZVd7IwVcu

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      2. Brando‏ @BrandoWarner 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @michaelshermer @gorskon

        Funny. I thought the guiding principle was to continuously and vigorously apply the methods of science to navigate the treacherous straits between “know nothing” skepticism and “anything goes” credulity. Seems like your trending toward credulity lately.

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @BrandoWarner @michaelshermer

        Indeed. I was shocked and disappointed to see that Mr. Shermer once interviewed Stefan Molyneux and described him as "one of the most articulate podcasters for reason." THAT is NOT skepticism.

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      2. David Tabachnick‏ @DeTabachnick 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @michaelshermer @gorskon

        The full quote from Spinoza suggests something quite different.

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      3. Ren Vis‏ @misterowlfan 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @DeTabachnick @michaelshermer @gorskon

        How so?

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      1. Dr. Jens Foell‏ @fMRI_guy 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @michaelshermer @gorskon

        Dude, when someone criticizes you for praising a guy who thinks ancient people somehow knew about the shape of the DNA molecule, & your best response is to dismiss this as "virtual signaling", then you have reached an excess level of arrogance & incompetence & should go to sleep.

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      1. BehavioralTerrain‏ @JohnKirbow 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @michaelshermer @gorskon

        Well stated Somehow it seems to be a never-ending battle to explain this to many people

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      2. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @michaelshermer @gorskon

        So will you start publishing climate denial now? Holocaust revisionism? Some ideas are prima facie absurd, obviously denialist, or racist and sexist garbage that don’t need amplification. The inability to distinguish tripe from t-bone isn’t a feature, it’s a bug.

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      3. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @michaelshermer @gorskon

        Will you extend such courtesy next to Ken Ham? Alex Jones? David Irving? What is the limit? Or rather what is the weakness? Are MRAs and sexists an ideological blind spot like climate change once was?

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      1. Real Dilbert Guy‏ @ScottMint33 15 Aug 2018
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        You’re not the right mag for me.

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