Some debunking is laudable, and I have no problem with anyone who haspunctured some form of charlatanism, but to call skepticism awholesome, philosophically valid position goes too far. Skepticism isthe attitude of doubt, or to dress it up for the dictionary, "themethod of suspended judgment, systematic doubt, or criticismcharacteristic of skeptics." But in my experience skeptics areoverreachers. They equate doubt with logical thinking, so that to beunskeptical makes one irrational. The use of words like pseudoscience,magic, superstition, and ignorance bolsters their central claim thatonly fools and knaves occupy the low ground outside the skepticaltradition. But Keats, Beethoven, and Van Gogh all worked in irrationalfields. And the line between religion and science, which skepticsdefend like armed guards, isn't so definite as they suppose, given thereligious bent of Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and other scientific mindsgreat and small.
Deepak Chopra