October 2015

It is ultimately, because it is ineffective for advancing reason and science to be one.  False balance is something that happens in places with bad methodology.  Receptive Skepticism is an open-mindedness movement, with good methodology, focused on evaluating ideas, while maintaining positive relationships with society, and positive relationships with opponents.  But open-mindedness calls for picking sides too, because we have to be open to where the evidence is strongest, and weakest.  At a certain point, not acknowledging that a side has much better support and higher probability, is a closed-minded act of denial.  Even staying neutral then, can be closed-minded. So we take stances onRead More →