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...hunting safe for children's minds and emotions? Does it, as Lisa Lange says, speaking for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, "teach children that life is not valuable?" A skeptic might observe that if anyone is teaching children in American society that life is not valuable, that teacher speaks through the media of television and movies and gangsta rap, not hunting...
CSICOP defines a skeptic as someone who questions the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it. A skeptic believes that science can improve society...
...took "The X-Files" as an example. Scully, the physicist and skeptic, is often wrong, while Mulder, the "believer" of paranormal, is often right. This characterization "promotes negative stereotypes of scientists and science," Nisbet said...
...Another skeptic concern with the increasing popularity of outer-world programs is that the next generation of policy-makers will be unable to sort the misinformation from the valid...
Whether or not they were inspired to heed Nisbet's call for a skeptic society on campus, some audience members were enthusiastic about his presentation...