A little something on skepticism

"Although the evidence offered by addicts of the marvelous for the reality of the phenomena they accept must be critically examined, it is equally necessary on the other side to scrutinize just as closely and critically the skeptics' allegations of fraud, or of malobservation, or of misrepresentation of what was observed, or of hypnotically induced hallucinations. For there is likely to be just as much wistful thinking, prejudice, emotion, snap judgement, naïveté, and intellectual dishonesty on the side of orthodoxy, of skepticism, and of conservation, as on the side of hunger for and belief in the marvelous. The emotional motivation for the irresponsible disbelief is, in fact, probably even stronger – especially in scientifically educated persons, whose pride of knowledge is at stake – than is in other persons the motivation for irresponsible belief. In these matters, nothing is so rare as genuine objectivity and impartiality of the judgement – judgement determined neither by the will to believe nor the will to disbelieve, but only by the will to get at the truth irrespective of whether it turns out to be comfortably familiar or uncomfortable novel, consoling or distressing, orthodox, or unorthodox."

- C. J. Ducasse

Cards used to test psi phenomena

What do you think? Especially about the underlined part?

I think it's very true. No matter what you believe, ascribe to, or describe yourself as, you're just as susceptible to blindness and hypocrisy as the next guy who might believe something totally different from you.