>Firstly, skepticism is basically just a new name for a discredited philosophical movement called 'logical positivism', in the same way that intelligent design

>Firstly, skepticism is basically just a new name for a discredited philosophical movement called 'logical positivism', in the same way that intelligent design is basically just a new name for creationism. The section on positivism here has a brief summary: http://plover.net/~bonds/nolongeraskeptic.html http://plover.net/~bonds/nolongeraskeptic.html That doesn't really shed any light. It merely asserts, without proving, that the modern skeptic movement is equivalent to logical positivism, and provides neither an argument for that, nor an argument against logical positivism. Now, I'm familiar with Popper and Quine's criticisms of logical positivism, and there are other criticisms that I'm probably not aware of, but I don't see how those criticisms relate to the modern skeptic movement. By the way, I do agree with many of the criticisms of the modern skeptic movement from that link, but I don't think that most of it has anything to do with whether the skeptics are correct in criticizing certain treatments and advocating others.