By Thomas Sheridan
thomassheridan.com
Are Hardcore Skeptics and Debunkers Actually Brain Deficient? Their Own Beloved 'Hard Science' Might Well Suggest Many Are.
We have all encountered
them. The men and women of 'reason'. The self-appointed guardians and vanguards
of materialist dogma along with their absolute faith and belief in official
government and corporate press releases. The debunker, the hardcore skeptic—how
they love to compulsively ridicule and mock all they deem 'pseudoscience' and
'conspiracy theory'—while also declaring anyone who thinks outside the box or
questions the prevailing orthodoxy, a "moron" and a "tard".
Matters not how solid the evidence you present them with is, nor how flimsy
their own state-sanctioned 'hard science' which they smugly offer up as their
rebuttal; they are driven by a messianic compulsion to root out unscientific
'idiots' with all the zeal and fanaticism similar to that of a Dominican or
Jesuit charging through southern France in the twelfth century seeking out
'heretics' for the burning. Irony does not even come into their myopic
worldview—unless of course a government, corporate or university press office
states this. Then it becomes an undisputed fact. Thanks to the likes of Richard
Dawkins and Christoper Hitchens, these Internet-bound warriors of rationality
see 'Creationists' and 'hidden Christians' around every corner and seek to root
them out and expose them as part and parcel of their own peculiar secular witch
hunt mentality.
The reality is that apart
from their own kind—other self-proclaimed non-'idiots'—most people find such
arrogant and obnoxious debunkers and hardcore skeptics to be strangely angry
and boorish, and often confrontational to the point of hysterical. So many of
them seem to lack basic social and behavioural skills when 'debating' with
their 'kook' of choice. Their absolutism can be staggering at times. Yet,
despite all this, they have somehow come to consider themselves 'cool' and even
'sexy' within the last decade. This is simply a lack of critical thinking on
their behalf; a distorted worldview where only they are right and everyone else
is an idiot.
However, when you strip
down their whole mandate into its constituent parts, one soon finds that most
of these 'scientifically' minded crusaders have no actual accredited scientific
background, and the entire thrust of their endeavours remains nothing less than
unconditional servitude and unquestioned devotion to authority figures and the
status quo. They seek entrenched orthodoxy, not exploration and wonder. They
see an open-minded individual as being akin to a brain being infected with a
disease, or the mark of a witch. They act as if Creationists are a real danger
to human survival, as if the US Bible Belt has extended beyond its absurd
boundaries. Creationists are about as much danger to the advances made by
scientists in the last two hundred years as Graneda was to Ronald Reagan back
in the early 1980s.
It is only fair to point
out that there are also healthy skeptics who genuinely do look at anomalies and
unexplained phenomena within the natural and unseen cosmos with a cautious eye.
They will at least indulge a novel or radical opinion and look at the evidence
before taking a stance—often it is an arbitrary position—based on using the
Scientific Method coupled with Carl Sagan's "extraordinary evidence".
They are generally polite and only moderately condescending at worst.
The debunker and the
hardcore skeptics, on the other hand, will even attack these open-minded
Materialists, similar to how a flying saucer cult will have very public witch
hunts of so-so members who have not shown their unconditional devotion to the
messages sent from the 'space brothers'. The irony is that many of the
open-minded skeptics that they attack often have a scientific or engineering
background, and these folks are being attacked by debunkers whose sum total of
their own quest for reason and logic rarely extends beyond procuring a
'Mythbusters' DVD box set or having a poster of Richard Dawkins on their wall.
Any Reductionist fence-sitters will be treated with ridicule and contempt—even
fascistic vitriol and vicious insults.
There is simply no grey
areas within the concrete consciousness of the debunker or the hardcore
skeptic; instead, only a kind of scientific idealism—and idealism, both secular
or otherwise, is really just a nice way of saying 'fascism'.
So what gives? How come
they behave the way they do? A complete lack of social intelligence? An
inability to debate, share interesting banter and listen to what another person
is saying which might be at odds with their own beliefs? Surprisingly, their
own beloved science might well provide the answer to these questions. It may
well be an over-stimulation of the left hemisphere of their brains leading to a
kind of self-induced schizophrenia whereby the right hemisphere of their brain
has been switched off. Hence, why they place no value on other forms of
non-lateral intelligence: noetic wisdom and intuition.
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