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Key components of Receptive Skepticism come from systems theory.  Practitioners of skeptical inquiry must know systems theory, so they don’t neglect scientific evidence on how to interact with our society.   And they can not justifiably evaluate the actions of others, while neglecting systems theory. When Receptive Skepticism promotes using systems theory, it is promoting: [1]. “the foundation of couple and family psychology research and practice. Systems theory provides a set of principles and concepts that inform our understanding of human behavior…” The above link is a resource to help both demonstrate the centrality of systems theory in the behavioral sciences, and to demonstrate that any social system isRead More →

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We find out what scorn is through systems theory.  Systems respond to changes, using feedback loops.   First, toss out the everyday meaning of feedback, this is a very different scientific term, so use the scientific definition to work through this.  They get a system stable/to equilibrium: Negative feedback loop, corrects a change Positive feedback loop adapts the system with a change. Since social systems operate just like other systems in systems theory, then we just ask what are the feedback loops in our social system?  What corrects change?  Now we have found scorn, and now, we identify it right, as mechanism with a purpose in whichRead More →

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After a terrifying and traumatic incident, Penny Lane Handley, was submitted to a heavy level of false accusations regarding the post that have now been laid to rest: -One false accusation was that Penny was not a victim of a fire.  -Another false accusation was that Penny had shoes, claiming they were provided before the incident in question.  This claim was heavily insisted upon and leveled in multiple related threads. We now can clearly identify these accusations as false, due to both the video interview, and from the information inside of the two posts written by both the main individual from the hotel, and theRead More →

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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 →

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In the previous post, I said Receptive Skepticism (RS) is a project to make a new form of skepticism.   And that is being done to meet a need, to save lives, and make things better.  Scientific Skepticism still has great people leading it toward a good direction. And while both can exist side by side and even work together,  RS can’t do what it needs to do, the way it can when distinct, while within Scientific Skepticism.   And then how it functions in practice will be socially different enough to make it something seen as a different type, or a new branch inRead More →

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I am a skeptic by nature, and someone who loves the truth enough to abandon error.  I left behind some of my most treasured beliefs, against my wishes, because of that conviction.  And I am a person whose ambitions arise from finding needs and not being satisfied with the loss coming from people missing out from a need.  My career choice reflects that also.  Because Scientific Skepticism has a valuable resource for evaluating information that the larger community needs, I see it worth working to see social change that would integrate this resource, and make it normal. This is an understatement of course.  People areRead More →