Skeptical_VR 

Skeptical_VR is just too good in the game known as gorilla tag. He jukes all the monkeys he can cause he is the best. 😎

"Aw man Skeptical_VR jukes us again!" :(
"He is just too good!" :(

Skeptical_VR by Skeptical_VR February 25, 2022

Skeptically Correct

The normative stance in skeptic communities where demanding extraordinary evidence, doubting everything outside a narrow scientific consensus, and aggressively debunking “pseudoscience” become mandatory performances of virtue. Being “skeptically correct” means reflexively rejecting claims about spirituality, alternative medicine, or anomalous experiences, and dismissing anyone who entertains them as gullible or irrational. It mimics political correctness by establishing a rigid orthodoxy—here, the orthodoxy of methodological naturalism and the authority of institutional science—and punishing deviation with ridicule and exclusion.

Example: “When she mentioned her meditation practice, he immediately declared it ‘unscientific’ and questioned her judgment. He wasn’t being skeptical; he was being skeptically correct, enforcing the community’s approved beliefs.”

Skeptically Correct by Dumu The Void April 1, 2026

Skeptical Racism

Unequal application of scientific doubt: demanding overwhelming proof from scholars of color about structural racism, while accepting weak evidence for racial deficit theories.
Example: "Where's your RCT proving police bias?" But when a paper suggests a genetic basis for IQ gaps, same reviewer says, "Interesting—needs more study."

Evidence-based Racism
Using systematic reviews, clinical algorithms, and risk assessments that treat race as a biological proxy, producing racially biased outcomes with scientific authority.
Example: A kidney function algorithm automatically adjusts results for "Black race," delaying transplant referrals for Black patients. It's published in a top medical journal.

Empirical Racism
The smug belief that if you can count it and run statistics on it, it must be objective truth—ignoring that categories, sampling, and questions were shaped by colonial racism.
Example: "But the arrest data clearly show more Black crime. I'm just following the numbers." Never mind that policing targets Black neighborhoods. Math-shaped bigotry.

Skeptical Racism
Applying extreme, asymmetrical scrutiny to claims benefiting racialized groups while granting easy credulity to claims benefiting whiteness.
Example: Demanding DNA proof for African origins of Egypt but accepting "Dynastic Race Theory" with zero genetic evidence—skepticism reserved for Black claims.

Evidence-based Racism
Selectively deploying empirical data to construct racial hierarchies, ignoring contradictory evidence and weaponizing the language of evidence-based practice.
Example: Citing one genetic study suggesting Near Eastern admixture in late-period mummies as "proof Egyptians weren't African," while downplaying same study's Nubian affinities.

Empirical Racism
The demand that only quantifiable, measurable data counts as knowledge, defined in ways that exclude non-Western realities, then using that absence as proof of inferiority.
Example: Dismissing African astronomical knowledge because no written records exist, while ignoring that their knowledge was oral—empiricism as a racial gatekeeper.

Skeptical Racism by Abzugal April 8, 2026

Skeptical Violence

A form of harm perpetrated by self‑identified skeptics who weaponize doubt to silence, harass, or exclude. Skeptical violence often involves demanding impossible evidence, moving goalposts, and then declaring the target irrational. It is distinct from healthy skepticism because it is not open to being proven wrong; it uses the posture of doubt as a permanent shield. The violence is in the refusal to engage honestly, treating every claim as guilty until proven innocent—and then moving the standard of proof beyond reach.

Example: “She provided sources; he said they were biased. She provided more; he said they were too old. She provided recent peer‑reviewed papers; he said the field was corrupt. Skeptical violence: endless doubt as a weapon.”

Skeptical Violence by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 15, 2026

Skeptical Alienation

The experience of being excluded from skeptical communities because one’s skepticism does not align with the orthodoxy—for example, questioning the consensus on a particular issue, or being skeptical of mainstream science’s claims about certain phenomena. Skeptical alienation is common for heterodox thinkers who are then labeled “pseudoskeptics.” It reveals that many skeptical groups are not open to genuine doubt but enforce a party line.

Example: “He questioned a popular skeptical claim and was immediately banned from the forum—skeptical alienation, where skepticism is only permitted against approved targets.”

Skeptical Alienation by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 15, 2026

Bi-skeptical 

A homosexual person who is curious about opposite sex relationships

Idk man, I love eating p****, but I’m a little bi-skeptical

Bi-skeptical by 451739 September 20, 2021