How Skeptics Make Us Too Trusting and Discourages Thinking

· Lecture · 18m· Mar 2025

Arjuna argues that Stephen Woodford (Rationality Rules), in attacking Stephen Meyer over the 2016 Royal Society evolution conference, defends not science but an authority structure — relying on ad hominem, misrepresenting the conference's admission that neo-Darwinism needs supplementing, and ignoring the career costs (Günter Bechly) that silence dissenting scientists.

critical thinking · evolution · geopolitics and religion · intelligent design · logical fallacies · philosophy of science · scientific methodology · skepticism


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