Hi, I a long time lurker and this is my first post. My ususal playground is the Sceptic Society forum but I have read the conspiracy forum here for some time with an almost morbid curiousity.
The reason for my response is the gaffe of Davidjayjordan confusing sceptisism with "SEEK TO FIND".
The danger of "seeking to find" is that you will find something if you look hard enough.These are, however, not necessary meaningfull or even truthfull answers or evidence. Seek hard to find and you are bound to find anything, from faces in the clouds to convenient coindicences, bigfoot tracks to the face of Jesus in a sandwich and telepathy to Nostradamus' verses predicting my first post in the JREF forum.
A sceptic asks questions, does research and seeks answers and evidence, but not necessary to find them. A sceptic takes the null-hypothesis and seeks not expecting to find. Only if you don't expect it that, which exists, can make itself known despite expectations.
A sceptic or scientist will take their own hypothesis and try to disprove and debunk it themselves before showing the results. They will attack it... hard.. untill it hurts and after that present it to the world and let others have a go at it. That's what sceptisism and science is not "SEEKING TO FIND".
The CTers, for instance, sought to find evidence for controlled demolition. What did they find? They found "Squibs", puffs of smoke they couldn't explain. That these puffs of smoke aren't evidence or explosives and can be explained by the air-pressure from the ongoing collapse doesn't matter to them. They sought hard to find evidence and they found; "squibs" and it's "evidence" because they found it.
Best regards, pannarrans