The problem comes in when the banner of rational skepticism -- the requirement to compare all data against observation rather thasn blindly accepting it -- is taken as cover by the practitioners of irrational nihilism, the desire to make nothing out of others and their positions, creations, statements, dreams, belongings and identities.

This difference is particularly telling in cases of observing psychic phenomena which are often sensitive to the observers' expectations. Or so I have been told.

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