Skeptic - A community for critical takes on pseudoscience, quackery, and bald-faced BS.
Skeptic - A community for critical takes on pseudoscience, quackery, and bald-faced BS.
A community for taking a critical look at pseudoscience, quackery, and bold-faced BS. “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.” ~ David Hume Things we like: • Thoughtful discussion • Humor • Civility Things we don’t like quite so much: • Trolling • Low-effort comments and posts • Personal...
Hey, all.
If you're someone who likes to think critically about extraordinary claims and outlandish statements being made online or in the news, come hang out with us at !skeptic@lemmy.world
quacks welcome to chat too? or no?
You can't have critical takes on quackery without quackery, so I think quacks should be welcomed as long as they refrain from the things we don't like list. Just as would be the case for the critical thinkers. I'm not saying this is the case, but it is how I would like it.
I know reddit's /r/skeptic was pretty hostile to people with the views they were interested in debunking. but I'm always on the lookout for people who are interested in debunking/refuting my weird/strange beliefs haha.
obviously I'd mean more towards being able to discuss between the two groups, not just let it get overrun with those kinda views.
btw quacks also consider themselves critical thinkers ;P
FYI it's "bald faced"
Bah, thanks for spotting that.
Ooh, an r/skeptic replacement sounds great!
Head's up for anyone on kbin.social: drop the "!" from the beginning of the instance url otherwise it likely won't show up in your search.
So skeptic@lemmy.world instead of !skeptic@lemmy.world
Apologies for the uninformed question, and how would I access this with only kbin or mastodon login?
I'm not familiar with mastodon, but with Kbin you can just go Magazines > search and we should appear in the results
https://kbin.social/m/<community>@<instance>, in this case https://kbin.social/m/skeptic@lemmy.world
It's explained in this comment:
https://kbin.social/m/newcommunities@lemmy.world/t/48054/-/comment/203223
Uh... skeptic? with a k?
Skeptic is the correct spelling in North America.
maybe the correct spelling is in use already.