skepticism is good. people should be skeptical of science, especially by the time it reaches popular media. but skepticism isn't very useful unless you can eval

skepticism is good. people should be skeptical of science, especially by the time it reaches popular media. but skepticism isn't very useful unless you can evaluate roughly how skeptical to be about a particular finding. five sigma physics finding replicated by multiple studies? probably good, but there's always some chance of systemic error. n=10 psychology study never replicated and all the subjects were white male college students? let's take that one with a big grain of salt.