Skepticism

As a psychologist, I’ve often come across people who are rigidly skeptical about such things as paranormal phenomena, religious experiences, Freud, and multiple personality disorders. First, they will say there is no scientific evidence to support it. Then, when presented with such evidence, they will insist it’s not good research, even though they can’t explain what “good” research is – or, if they succeed in finding flaws, they refuse to acknowledge that even the best research in psychology has flaws. As a last resort, they’ll simply dismiss all of psychology with a wave of the hand.

 

I have to say that I’m skeptical of such skeptics, especially those “professional skeptics” whose mission to debunk something they simply refuse to believe makes me think of that famous quote from Shakespeare. Me thinks he doth protest too much.

 

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