skepticate

When one is influenced by another's skepticism to change one's own action. Usually, one is doing something that is generally held to be unwise, but seems to be a brilliant idea to the beholder.

I was going to jump off the roof of our building with an umbrella, but my brother skepticated the idea. Later, I read in the paper that a man jumped from his building with an umbrella and broke both his legs.

skepticate by DocGurl October 19, 2008

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skeptical hippo

A hippopotamus that sits in water while giving the observer a sideways, skeptical glance. Generally appears in motivational poster form whenever questionable facts are posted.

I'd try giving an example, but skeptical hippo would question the validity of it.

skeptical hippo by Nunuv Yabizness April 26, 2011

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skeptical

associated with doubting, not believing, not accepting

You should be skeptical of a fortune teller whose crystal ball has three finger holes in it.

skeptical by yorrick hunt January 23, 2008

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Skeptical Science

Skeptical Science is a website that says to fight climate change skepticism and climate change denial, but nowadays it is a website that promotes neopositivism, militant atheism, militant scientism, militant debunkism and militant skepticism; it believes that conspiracy theories cannot happen despite the number of conspiracy theories that turned out to be true; it believes that all alleged fallacies are always fallacious despite that often alleged fallacies are not fallacious at all, but rather reasonable heuristics and the first step to deal with a complex problem, and it also often use of the own fallacies they claim people actually use in order to attack anyone who disagrees with neopositivism and militant atheism, and also calling anyone who disagrees with neopositivism and militant atheism "antiscience" and "denialist". Overall, it is basically a non-Wiki version of RationalWiki focused on fighting climate change skepticism and climate change denial, this website should change its name to "Skeptical Scientism" or "Skeptical Militant Scientism" to fit better what this website is actually about.

Skeptical Science is just like RationalWiki in form of a website focused on fighting climate change skepticism and climate change denial.

Skeptical Science by Dumugian February 8, 2022