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sceptic

(archaic and US), skeptic
1. a person who habitually doubts the authenticity of accepted beliefs
2. a person who doubts the truth of religion, esp Christianity
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In a test of both USNA computer models during the report's review process, University of Virginia climatologist Patrick Michaels (one of the skeptics attacked in Boiling Point) and his colleagues found the simulations of past U.S.
Of course, there will always be cynics and skeptics who hold the misguided belief that if they can not see their goal, then it cannot be possible.
In my discussion of these pieces, I hope to evoke some sense of how students can be encouraged to "experience themselves otherwise" through their engagement with film theory--specially, as passionate producers rather than cool consumers (via the words of Eisenstein), as believers rather than facile skeptics (via the words of Bazin), and as embodied rather than disembodied thinkers (via the words of Barthes).
It is true, as Bailey points out (56), that Sextus ascribes the Ten Modes both to Aenesidemus and to "the older skeptics." But he also, for example, includes Aenesidemus among the holders of dogmatic theories of truth (M 8.3,8), and of a theory about the relation of the intellect to the senses (M 7.350)--to say nothing of the notorious issue of his criticism of Aenesidemus for (in some sense) associating skepticism and the philosophy of Heraclitus (PH 1.210-12).
freethought.org), "Atheists, agnostics, humanists, doubters, skeptics, [and] freethinkers ...
The Jewish Museum's senior curator-at-large Susan Tumarkin Goodman brings together fifty-six early Chagalls, including paintings, drawings, and murals (as well as thirteen canvases by his teacher Yehuda Pen), few of which have ever been shown in the West, giving skeptics an unprecedented opportunity to see this unfashionable artist with fresh eyes.
Despite skeptics' suggestions that his disappearance was an elaborate coming-out cover-up, Simmons maintains that he suffers from amnesia as a result of being attacked and beaten more than 16 years ago.
By calling the science "still incomplete," Bush also lent new credibility to the tiny handful of industry-sponsored "greenhouse skeptics" who have been thoroughly discredited by the mainstream community of climate researchers--including the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Academy of Sciences and other blue-ribbon scientific groups that deem global warming to be real, immediate and ominous.
For skeptics, it's a wacky plan to create a floating city outside the sovereignty of any recognized nation.
As a result, many skeptics believe that the opposition and the government purposely delayed electing an interim PM so that the decision can then be passed to a parliamentary committee and if the committee too fails to decide on a name the decision shall then be made By: the Election Commission of Pakistan.