• bostonbananarama@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You are not a skeptic if you reject information you don’t want to be true or sources you don’t like. Skeptics research things to see if they could be false.

    As a skeptic I do not accept claims until they have been sufficiently demonstrated.

    There’s nothing wrong with discounting sources which are unreliable. State controlled media from Türkiye, a country rapidly sliding toward authoritarianism, gives me serious doubt. That doesn’t mean it’s not true, but it does mean that I’m not willing to accept it based on their reporting.

    Also, I never claimed it wasn’t true, simply that I would be careful basing my beliefs on non credible sources.