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It's kinda sad how the banner of skepticism has been co-opted and sort of turned into some sort of dogmatic scientism. We really need some pyrrho in our lives these times.

Yet the human lifespan is far too short to do your own verification for an appreciable number of important questions. At some point, practicality demands acquiescence to “someone smarter than me said so and hasn’t yet been proven blatantly incorrect” on at least some issues.

While I agree that the epistemology is shite, there actually is a limit to how much you can do by your own self

Not everybody has a large hadron collider on their garden