We all do or say things that later we may come to regret. At the time, we may believe we are doing the right thing, whatever it is, but come to find out that in fact, we hadn’t thought our action through very well before executing it. Some may actually apologize to whomever their target happened to be, others refuse, beliving that they were actually trying to do something good and that sometimes, bad things happen to good people.
If I’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s to be exrea-skeptical about anything I read on social media. I’ve beem caugut before, being the goat (one of many) thst have retweeted a story that turns out to be completely false. Some of these even come from those that we normally consider trusted sources.
When I read John’s post today, it started me thinking, again, about what I consider the bad old past. What I mean by that is just a few years ago, there was such a division between athesits and skeptics that it drove many of us away. It did me, for a while.
Somwthing, over time I found I am unable to do is read anyone elses mind. Strange isn’t it? I have no idea what anyone else is thinking about and neither do they know what I am as well.
Why is it so difficult for some people to understand that were not all from the same cookie cutter? We are all different and have diverse life experiences, but there seem to still e some hanging around, as skeptics, that will not tolerate a difference of opinion, no matter what the subject happens to be.
Every time I watch television, and this may only be a perception on my part, I seem to be bombarded during commercial breaks with pharmaceutical advertising. These are slick commercials and I’ve always found it interesting that say, in the last decade (maybe longer), they’ve made the decision to go directly to the consumer to sell their products.
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while. Do GMO’s present a danger to humans? I’m not a specialist in this field and I’ve not written about this subject simply because I expect some to criticize me that I have no background here. But I can read, as well as anyone else, and I think it’s time for all of us, to take another look at this controversy, most notably skeptics.
We, as humans, are liars by nature. Shocking statement to make isn’t it? But if you step back for a moment and examine your own life, as well as those friends or family members closet to you, I think you might agree.
As atheists and skeptics, we’re often confronted by people making claims that are just not provable by the person making the claim. We often come up against theists that claim God exists, but when we ask for proof, they tend to try and turn the argument around and ask us to prove God doesn’t exist. Proving a negative isn’t possible, that’s why claimants that provide no evidence are usually waved off by most people.
I haven’t written anything recently, in fact, quite a while, about homeopathy. I think this is one of the subjects that as skeptics, we could come to agreement on: it’s all based on zero scientific evidence. We should be working to have these ineffective and sometimes dangerous products, removed from being able to be sold or even promoted.
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