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• 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....
• Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof. There are many examples of outsiders who eventually overthrew entrenched scientific orthodoxies, but they prevailed with irrefutable data.
  More often, egregious findings that contradict well-established research turn out to be artifacts....
• While it cannot be proved retrospectively that any experience of possessio
  conversion, revelation, or divine ecstasy was merely an epileptic discharge, we must ask how one differentiates "real transcendence" from neuropathies that produce the same extreme realness, profundity, ineffability, and sense of cosmic unity....
• Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence -- UFO expe
• 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....
• Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof. There are many examples of outsiders who eventually overthrew entrenched scientific orthodoxies, but they prevailed with irrefutable data.
  More often, egregious findings that contradict well-established research turn out to be artifacts....
• 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....
• Despite its suffix, skepticism is not an "ism" in the sense of a belief or dogma.
  It is simply an approach to the problem of telling what is counterfeit and what is genuine....
• There is no conclusive evidence about what happens to old skeptics, but their future is doubtful.