Comments on: How to tell the difference between a genuine skeptic and a simple denialist http://dirtyhippies.org/2011/03/04/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-a-genuine-skeptic-and-a-simple-denialist/ Democracy. Unwashed. Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:36:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Dvd Avins http://dirtyhippies.org/2011/03/04/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-a-genuine-skeptic-and-a-simple-denialist/#comment-139 Dvd Avins Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:56:14 +0000 http://dirtyhippies.org/?p=361#comment-139 While I appreciate your calling attention to the distinction between skepticism and denial, I wish you hadn't contributed to the confusion between refutation and rebuttal. To refute something is to prove it wrong, not merely to disagree with it. While I appreciate your calling attention to the distinction between skepticism and denial, I wish you hadn’t contributed to the confusion between refutation and rebuttal. To refute something is to prove it wrong, not merely to disagree with it.

]]> By: Paul Rosenberg http://dirtyhippies.org/2011/03/04/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-a-genuine-skeptic-and-a-simple-denialist/#comment-137 Paul Rosenberg Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:00:22 +0000 http://dirtyhippies.org/?p=361#comment-137 <b>I Like</b> the menagerie approach. I've always thought that descriptive biology has a good deal more ability to guide us reliably than most folks realize. This is an excellent example of the sort of thing I have in mind. I Like

the menagerie approach. I’ve always thought that descriptive biology has a good deal more ability to guide us reliably than most folks realize. This is an excellent example of the sort of thing I have in mind.

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