{"id":256,"date":"2007-02-04T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2017-11-29T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:35:11","slug":"regan-lee-lights-off-on-what-she-thinks-skeptics-are-like-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/02\/04\/regan-lee-lights-off-on-what-she-thinks-skeptics-are-like-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Regan Lee lights off on what she thinks skeptics are like, once again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skepticism vs. All The Other Kinds of Skeptoism<\/p>\n

Hey, that’s it! Maybe. “Skepto” to denote the rabid, pathological, fundie,mondo, irrational skepticism, and to separate it from normal, everyday, \u201creal”\u009d skepticism.<\/p>\n

While we do have skepti-bunkies, skeptoid, etc. that seems to offend those that wear those shoes (tough) and confuse some others.<\/p>\n

I like Colin Bennett’s chronic and cultural skepticism terms, but that may be too esoteric.<\/p>\n

Whatever term you use, and I’ll probably keep on using various forms of rabid-pathological-fundie myself, the point is: there is skepticism, and then there’s something else entirely hiding behind the goodly term of skepticism.<\/p>\n


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Skepticism vs. All The Other Kinds of Skeptoism Hey, that’s it! Maybe. “Skepto” to denote the rabid, pathological, fundie,mondo, irrational skepticism, and to separate it from normal, everyday, \u201creal”\u009d skepticism. While we do have skepti-bunkies, skeptoid, etc. that seems to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}