This is a variation of a column that I have been writing yearly for decades. I write to remind readers that skepticism has been a driving factor in my over 50 years in journalism, including small and large city dailies, the Associated Press, Congressional Quarterly, Energy Daily, Electricity Daily, POWER magazine, and The Quad Report.
Skepticism is often under attack, from a variety of directions. Skepticism about global warming claims, not about the phenomenon itself, is viewed as apostasy in some corners, among people I normally would expect would value it.
Believers in conspiracy theories and in the endless lies of Donald Trump view skeptics as enemies who are clearly part of the conspiracies. On his part, Trump spawns conspiracy theories with the frequency of summer squalls.
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