Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.

Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.