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History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.
Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.
There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.
This is the essence of skepticism: How do we know what to believe and what to doubt?
Once you begin to ask questions like "How do we actually know anything?" our beliefs start to fall one by one.
If B follows A, then B is not necessarily a cause of A.
Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.
Like any pseudo scientific thinking, denialism begins with a desired conclusion. Rather than supporting a controversial or rejected claim, like many pseudo sciences, denialists maintain that a generally accepted scientific or historical claim is not true, usually for ideological reasons. Denialists then engage in what is called motivated reasoning, rationalizing why the undesired claim is not true or at least not proven. They therefore are working backwards from their desired conclusion, filling in justifications for what they believe, rather than following logic and evidence wherever it leads.
