katydee comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2010-2011) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 12 August 2010 10:36:34AM 5 points [-]

Skeptical sites are good, but not great, because being a good skeptic is different from being a good rational thinker. You can probably get by as a skeptic knowing only "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" and the basics of the scientific method.