When one is only skeptical of information that contradicts a preformed opinion and openly accepts any and all aligned information, regardless of legitimacy or source, and openly rejects contradictory information that cannot be proven to be true when judged against an ever-changing ad-hoc burden of proof
Joe is so skeptically absurd into the deep state that he anything anyone brings to the table he rejects. He’s is the head of skeptically absurdism.
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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.”
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Get the Skeptically Correct mug.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.
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.
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.
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Get the Bi-skeptical mug.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.
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