Contemporary Science Is Based On The Philosophy

The Fact That You Can Forge A Twenty Dollar Bill Doesn't Prove That All Twenty Dollar Bills Are Forgeries.

I'm Talking About Science On The Leading Edge, Where It's Not Clear Which Way Things Are Going Be Cause We Don't Know, And I'm Dealing With Areas Which We Don't Know About.

In Both Religion And Science, Some People Are Dishonest, Exploitative, Incompetent And Exhibit Other Human Failings.

In Practice, The Goal Of Skepticism Is Not The Discovery Of Truth, But The Exposure Of Other People's Errors. It Plays A Useful Role In Science, Religion, Scholarship, And Common Sense. But We Need To Remember That It Is A Weapon Serving Belief Or Self-interest; We Need To Be Skeptical Of Skeptics. The More Militant The Skeptic, The Stronger The Belief.

Contemporary Science Is Based On The Philosophy Of Materialism, Which Claims That All Reality Is Material Or Physical.