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I noticed how reactionary a lot of the skeptic community was
the skeptic community is so strange, I’m into paranormal stuff and the sheer amount of hatred and vitriol they direct towards anything outside of their weird atheistic paradigm is so bizarre to me. It’s understandable given the history of…ideas like that but I remember having a professor who was the president of a big skeptic association and he seemed like a really uniquely miserable person. Despite being a liberal he also had some really YIKES takes…
weird atheistic paradigm
That’s a great observation. The skeptic community claimed to care about rationality, evidence, science, etc, but in practice they basically just fetishised a very particular aesthetic of rationality. Turns out, you can use that same aesthetic to argue for totally irrational and unscientific things, and it still sounds the same.
