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> You're absolutely on the wrong side of this. Are we counting being skeptical of a claim as taking the opposite side? Seems like the user is trying to underst

• epistasis 6y ago
  It's not being skeptical, it's in fact the exact opposite of any form of skepticism: it's being so credulous to one "side" that you make up falsehoods to excuse bad behavior, instead of using that same time to look for actual facts. I don't know how this style of thinking has in the past decade or so come to be thought of as "skepticism," it's just incredible bias against one side. A skeptical though process would be inventing equally fabulous motivations in all directions, not just one.