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

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

Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.

Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a negative process, and therefore does not lead to knowledge. Both are wrong for the same reasons. They ignore the generation of diversity and new ideas upon which natural selection and skepticism acts. Weeding out the unfit is critical to both - natural selection allows evolution to proceed, and skepticism allows science to advance.

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

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

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.