On the other hand, if skepticism becomes too dominant and people are castigated and ridiculed for seeing merit in a new hypothesis or a different paradigm, just because it flies in the face of currently held beliefs, then I tend to shy away from skepticism.
That kind of skepticism can take away our originality of thought and undermine our ability to imagine and to dream. Science is good at winnowing out the bulldust from the gems in any batch of hypotheses but only the inspiration of the human mind can create those hypotheses in the first place.
Let's not let anything dampen the enthusiasm of original thinkers!
Go Beagle!
Stu
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