“skeptic” is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it as a noun or an adjective to describe someone who expresses or feels doubt about something. Example sentence: The skeptical audience questioned the validity of his claims.
However, a skeptic seems to mechanically apply the skeptical Modes, in order to generate suspension of judgment and tranquility.
This appears to capture a core element of skepticism: the way in which the skeptic thinks such thoughts as "everything is inapprehensible".
The skeptic is an investigator, and one anti-skeptical charge says that, if indeed the skeptic knew nothing, she could not even formulate the questions she investigates.
He is thus closely acquainted with Academic skepticism (Cicero was one kind of Academic skeptic).
Key Abbott supporter and outspoken climate skeptic Senator Cory Bernardi also went on a trip to the US, to meet with the Heartland Institute.
The results of this study harken back to prior work by one well-known skeptic Richard Lindzen who published work on climate feedbacks in 2009, and by another well-known skeptic Roy Spencer who wrote an article in 2011.
The real test, Mann said, lies with establishment-backed candidates like former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who recently declared himself a climate skeptic despite his previous assertion that the climate may be warming.
The former DEP employees said the ban came into effect after the arrival in office of governor Scott, who is a climate change skeptic and who installed a new DEP director early in his governorship.
If the temperature rises the tax goes up, if the temperature does not rise (as McKitrick, a climate change skeptic thinks) the tax will stay at a low level.
And to some degree they have a point: corporate scientists at GM and Ford, for example, helped fuel their companies' official skeptic stance.
He is a zealous Europhile in a deeply Eurosceptic nation; he is a civil libertarian and prison skeptic in a country where 81% of people think sentencing is too lenient.
