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Skeptical of Skeptics

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1991
Skepticism permeates our profession. It is ingrained during medical training and reinforced by professional experience. Who among us has not repeatedly seen claims for fourth-generation drugs with no side effects, new operations that yield glowing results with minimal complications, or the latest infallible, high-tech diagnostic procedure...
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The Skeptic's Skeptic

Scientific American, 2010
The author opines regarding the evaluation of science and pseudoscience while praising the skills of logician Christopher Hitchens in doing so. The author notes instances of Hitchens' commentary on unsound science including a display of quackery by an Indian medicine man and the flaws of creationism reflected in an episode of the television series ...
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The Art of Skepticism and the Skepticism of Art

Philosophy Today, 2009
The world is woven all of dream and error And but one sureness in our truth may lie That when we hold to aught our thinking's mirror We know it not by knowing it thereby . . . We know the world is false, not what is true. Yet we think on. Fernando Pessoa At the beginning there was a call. After a while, somebody answered.
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Skepticism About Loss of Skepticism!

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1991
To the Editor.— Alpert and Coles 1 started their December editorial, "Loss of Skepticism in Medical Education," with the "... pathology Professor's favorite words—How do you know that?" This pathology professor would like to ask them the same thing regarding their claim that the "medical school curriculum is hostage to the national board examination."
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Underdetermination Skepticism and Skeptical Dogmatism

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2015
The Mundane World Hypothesis (mwh) says that we have material bodies, we have brains located inside our bodies, we have sense organs which process visual information, the direct cause of our perceptual judgments is typically macroscopic material objects, and we live in a material world.
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Nietzsche on the Skeptics and Nietzsche as Skeptic

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2000
Etude de la reference aux Sceptiques grecs, en particulier, et au scepticisme, en general, dans la philosophie de Nietzsche. Examinant la culture philologique, ainsi que l'attitude du penseur face au scepticisme, l'A. s'interroge sur la possibilite d'une interpretation sceptique de la philosophie nietzscheenne dans son ensemble.
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Skepticism and Climate Change Skepticism

2013
We argue that the climate change debate has been plagued with confusions resulting from the fact that the word “skepticism” has been given positive connotations. Many people, including a number of professional philosophers and scientists, regard skepticism as an intellectual virtue, and as a particularly scientific virtue at that.
Richard Corry, David Coady
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Oakeshott’s Skepticism and the Skeptical Traditions

European Journal of Political Theory, 2005
English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-90) called himself a skeptic at various times, and yet his writings reveal little or no engagement with either of the major Hellenistic skeptical traditions, Pyrrhonism and Academic skepticism. Although he argued that the best way to understand ourselves is to look at the mirror of our intellectual ...
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Skepticism, Mitigated Skepticism, and Contextualism

1996
My subject in this paper is a central thesis of Hume’s mitigated skepticism, that although radical skepticism has no theoretical solution it may nevertheless be a means to achieve a balanced and tranquil life. I begin by arguing that this is an untenable view: there is no justification for the claim that skeptical reflections are a means to tranquility
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Healthy skepticism

Preventive Medicine, 2004
To investigate the relationship between medical skepticism and overall self-rated health and to identify disparities in health for vulnerable subgroups among the elderly.A cross-sectional telephone survey involving multiple callbacks. Independent variables included three measures of medical skepticism and disparities variables (low income, low ...
James E, Rohrer, Tyrone F, Borders
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