Top all-time · #19176
Crispian Jago
Personal blog · crispian-jago.blogspot.comscienceculture
Crispian Jago writes The Reason Stick, a personal blog at crispian-jago.blogspot.com about science and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, on an HN thread about James Randi, which argues that skepticism is a practice of question-asking rather than a movement or belief system. The linked post covers skepticism and Randi.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blunt, shit-stained instrument wielded indiscriminately to bludgeon pseudoscience, superstition, blind faith and common or garden irrational bollocks.
What Hacker News says?
The practice of skepticism -- lower-case S -- is generally a good thing. Skepticism goes off the rails when the S gets capitalized and it tries to style itself as a Movement(tm). It can never be a movement or a belief system because... it isn't. Skepticism is a practice of question-asking and open-minded interrogation, not a specific set of beliefs. Saying you're skeptical says nothing about what you actually think.…
Comment linking /2010/07/periodic-table-of-irrational-nonsense.html
on “The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi”Submitted A Handy Alternative Therapy Flowchart as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern Science Map as a story · 1 points
HN discussion