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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 day ago

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