Dogmatic skepticism is the worst pseudoscience: skeptics who assign a zero prior probability to anomalous phenomena have made their position unfalsifiable, so 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' is a trick because the bar is set at infinity and the claim is 'extraordinary' only relative to their worldview.
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Alex Gómez-MarínEvidence Quote
“What's your prior probability that what I'm entertaining... could be true? Is it zero or is it 0.000000001? Huge difference. Because if you tell me it's zero, I don't want to talk to you.”
Created: 6/18/2026, 1:58:41 PM
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