Turn on a popular radio program and one thing you're likely to hear is a debate between

proponents of two opposing views.

This isn't always political, sometimes it's a science question.

But take caution, the very fact that a science position is being publicly debated against

a pseudoscience position does not necessarily do the public intellect any favors.

Good science, debate pseudoscience, that's what we're talking about right now, unskeptoid.

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Should science debate pseudoscience?

Today I'm going to propose a bit of a radical idea.

About every week I get invited to debate someone on another podcast on the radio in person

and I'm invited to take the side of science and debate a pseudoscientist.

It might be a ghost hunter, it might be a young earth creationist, it might be a practitioner

of alternative medicine, always based on some scaptoid episode I've done that ruffled

someone's feathers.

Although I used to always accept these invitations, I now always decline them.

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