DE-MOTIVATIONAL POSTERS - Skeptical Twilight

If I knew how easy it is to make these posters, I would had made more of them a long time ago.

Anyways: the one thing I learn about science, which was firmly ingrained in my brain over the last three years studying Biology in university, is that skepticism is a way of life in this enterprise.

Science is about uncovering the real underlying patterns and phenomena that govern the natural world. It is all about gathering and organizing accurate, testable, predictable and explainable knowledge of the universe. As such, by its very nature it demands honesty, integrity and objectivity in the investigative process; every new discovery is subjected to absolutely intense scrutiny by the scientific community in order to ensure it is free from bias and mistakes. 

This may cause some people to think that people of the scientific community as close-minded or stubborn, unable to accept new ideas. But this is absolutely necessary for an absolutely accurate picture of the natural universe. Science deals with hard cold facts, it accepts reality as it truly is; it has no room for wishful thinking. Scientists make conclusions from evidence, not make evidence conform to a conclusion. 

In particular, the scientific community have to do it in order to keep out an ever increasing gallery of unsavory people who would abuse science and corrupt evidence by exaggerating results, change numbers, selectively report data, and outright making shit up for a variety of unsavory agendas - these include cranks, fraudsters, conspiracy theorists, creationists, medical quackery, and the like. These parasites, by their very existence, undermines scientific research and progress in Human civilization. They deceive people for their own gain all under a veneer of 'science', which is, in truth, at best pseudoscience, at worst superstition.

It is for this reason, ladies and gentlemen, that, in science there can be no room for ambiguity or holes that could be subjected to doubt. Even if an event occurs that seemingly defies all quantifiable analysis, and therefore can be considered a 'miracle', science cannot accept it as such; just because it doesn't appear to make any sense does not mean there isn't a naturalistic explanation based on some naturalistic principle that scientists had yet discover and quantify. And as long as naturalistic explanations cannot, and never will be be ruled out, it is not a miracle.

To simply write it off as a miracle is to genuinely jump down a slippery slope that allows other pseudo-scientific ideas, such as Cold Fusion, Flood Geology, Astrology, Magic etc. to be excused. It will open the flood-gates to intellectual anarchy that would spell the end of science, the end of modern civilization and the beginning of a new dark age.

Thus, skepticism is a foundation of science. Always question everything...

... and don't let anyone or anything stop us from the our quest to empirical knowledge. 

(but that is no excuse to jump to conclusions - skepticism is healthy, paranoia/delusion/conspiracy/all three is not)

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