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• Wish and hope succeed in discerning signs of paranormality where reason and careful scientific procedure fail.
  -- James E. Alcock, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12...
• I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience.
  And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true....
• Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined
  hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension....
• The book is worth attention for only two reasons: (1) it attacks attempts to expose sham paranormal studie
  and (2) it is very well and plausibly written and so rather harder to dismiss or refute by simple jeering....
• The inability to benefit from feedback appears to be the primary cause of pseudoscience.
  Pseudoscientists retain their beliefs and ignore or distort contradictory evidence rather than modify or reject a flawed theory....
• SMILEY :-/ skeptical
• Top Secret message - please read, print and eat.
• Fortunately, the responsibility for providing evidence is on the part of the person making the claim, not the critic.
  It is not the responsibility of UFO skeptics to prove that a UFO has never existed, nor is it the responsibility of paranormal-health-claims skeptics to prove that crystals or colored lights never healed anyone....
• It is sad to find him belaboring the science community for its united opposition to ignorant creationists who want teachers and textbooks to give equal time to crank arguments that have advanced not a step beyond the flyblown rhetoric of Bishop Wilberforce and William Jennings Bryan.
  -- Martin Gardner, Irving Kristol and the Facts of Life, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol....