• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    The author is very cross that people aren’t infinitely tolerant of endlessly disproven bullshit.

    Some questions have these things called “answers.” We don’t need to be open-minded about topics like psychic powers, vaccines, homeopathy, or quantum physics. The boundaries of their efficacy are well fucking explored. No stone was left unturned. Either they’re real - and their implications have become engineering and practice - or they’re nonsense. If we could make use of them, we would.

    James Randi (1928–2020), whose career I considered in my October 26, 2020, article “The Man Who Destroyed Skepticism.”

    Fuck off, crank.

    • artifex@piefed.social
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      6 hours ago

      Agreed. Anyone who takes this approach needs to do what Randi did - put their money where their mouth is.