Two Kinds of Science "Skepticism"

Over the weekend in New York, the excellent science journalist John Horgan spoke at a convention of "Skeptics," the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, and absolutely flailed crowd. I wish I could have been there. Even better, he published his comments at Scientific American. This is a man after my own heart. He begins:

I hate preaching to the converted.

Ditto.

If you were Buddhists, I'd bash Buddhism. But you're skeptics, so I have to bash skepticism.

I'm a science journalist. I...