For years I have been bemused by the website called The Skeptical Zone.  Every few months I go over there and peruse the posts.  And I think to myself, if they are so skeptical, why does practically everything they say line up with the received dogmas and conventional wisdom of the early 21st century Western intelligentsia? Do they not know what the word “skeptical” means?  Are they going for ironical? But in a flash of insight today, I finally figured it out.  The key is in the quote from Cromwell at the top of their homepage that serves as the motto for the site: I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken. … Continue reading I Finally Figured Out TSZ’s Motto