I'm presenting this 10-minute clip not because I'm trying to debunk the 9/11 conspiracy theories (though I definitely have something to say to those dungbrains), but because I want to introduce the kind of thought and analysis process that I'll be using in the next few days to (hopefully) discuss the current public interest in the supposed correlation between toddler vaccinations and autism. Pay particular attention to the first minute and a half or so, when Penn gives an excellent definition of what it is to be a "skeptic". We are not curmudgeons who do not want to believe in anything; rather, we are simply inquiring minds who actually like to have our perceptions changed about something - provided we are presented with the necessary evidence for it.
This video might warrant a small caveat that it contains some strong language, so you might want to cover the little ones' ears if you're worried about that sort of thing.
Since embedding has been disabled for the video, here's the link.
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I often find myself viewing the world with a quite skeptic/cynical mind, when my friends confront me about it I'll defend it as realism. Although I think that it's a good quality, as long as you can allow yourself to hope and dream, being skeptic/cynical/realistic will just help you to be aware of what you actually can achieve.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the video, I think that most people have a line drawn when not to question or be skeptic, it would have to be called common sense. But some of the people in the video just pushed it too far