"All truth goes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, next it is violently opposed, finally it is accepted as inherent truth." - Schopenhauer
Thoughts
editHow does a skeptic choose what to believe and what not to believe? The same way the rest of us do, they just make it their mission to denounce publicly what it is they don't believe in - for the sake of the rest of us. They assume there are masses of people inhabitiang the planet with them that are waiting to fall prey to the perpetrators of "scams"