On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote:
A question that hasn't been asked is WHY many pseudoskeptics seem to pursue rabid vendettas against issues like UFOs, or CF & LENR, relentlessly so.
Another method is to query your own Skeptic side. What I find in there is something simple: the goal is not to spread correct knowledge or to teach the ignorant, nor is the goal to discover Truth or even Reality. The goal is TO WIN, to win a heroic battle against an inferior, subhuman, disgusting foe who threatens to contaminate Purity.
But as you say, this is often a matter of psychological projection, and the Skeptic is actually fighting their own inner Woo-woo or spiritual believer. Perhaps they're trying to wipe out their own inner Scientist who wants to strip off the cloud of dishonest BS and drill down to the truth.
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