Myths of Skepticism.

Myths of Skepticism.

December 16, 1997

This is a long overdue rewrite and expansion of my Myths of Skepticism paper presented the Capital District Humanist Society, January 14, 1996, and the Inquiring Skeptics of Upper New York (http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/isuny/) on June 5th, 1996. For those of you who saw the talk, or read an earlier form, I have expanded on the myths of belief and corrected most of the spelling and grammar. I also removed the comments on Higher Superstition, which didn't belong there in the first place. This is still a work in progress.

I would like to thank Taner Edis, Michael Koopman, and the members of CDHS for their helpful comments on earlier versions, Paul DeFrancisco for the invitation to speak to CDHS (which was the push I needed to put my thoughts into words), and Michael Shermer and Jeanine DeNoma for their reprint requests (which was the push I needed to correct those words).