Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.

Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.