... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.