However, some experts are sceptical, pointing to problems with collective DC schemes in the Netherlands.
The opposition is sceptical, pointing out that it has failed to do this with any of its other channels.
But critics remained sceptical, pointing out that would not stop foreign agencies accessing German online communication data transferred to the US-based servers of Google, Facebook or Microsoft.
Not surprisingly, many experts are sceptical, pointing to the parallel with artificial intelligence (AI), which boffins confidently described as imminent in the 1950s but which remains elusive to this day.
But Greenpeace was sceptical, pointing out that global energy investment was in the region of $1 trillion a year and that BP and Shell spent 5% or less of their money on supporting renewables and 95% on oil and gas schemes.
This wasn't an incarnation of the former work and pensions secretary with which he was familiar, and he was understandably confused; not to say sceptical, pointing out that he had always seemed quite happy to shaft the poorest and most vulnerable members of society for the past six years and it was asking a lot of the public to believe that secretly he had always been on their side.
From something like the canon of transcendental arguments outlined above, the characteristic marks of such arguments might be listed as follows: 1. Transcendental arguments are anti-skeptical, so that (as Strawson puts it) it is widely assumed that 'the point of transcendental arguments in general is an anti-sceptical point' (Strawson 1985: 10).
The more sceptical might point out that a car costing £50,000-£100,000 and sold around the corner from a Louis Vuitton store will struggle to be a green car for the masses.
Writers of press releases and promoters of their own work (even if they are respected scientists) can often overstate their case to sell their ideas, which is why – when writing your own science story – you should always be sceptical (see point 2).
Sceptical critics pointed out that she could never have afforded her server costs on her own, but the spin worked.
