The 5th century sophists develop forms of debate which are ancestors of skeptical argumentation.
That record has left some of the players in the immigration debate skeptical that he could ever be won over, even if his own plan was added to the legislation.
Among other things, Lovell explains that the geological argument for the power of carbon dioxide is the one that he would take into a bar in Midland, Tex., to debate skeptical peers (his background is primarily in petroluem geology and he worked for decades in the oil industry).
Others are skeptical of the debates about composition or persistence through time.
With this proposal, Fine turns against two prominent positions in scholarly debate about skeptical belief (see section 4.4), that skeptics have no beliefs whatsoever, and that they have beliefs that fall short of holding true.
But others, like Al Fioretti, who operates a bread-delivery route, are skeptical after years of debate on the fate of the Yorktown plant.
I am a curious and skeptical individual who often debates with people who believe in planting vegtable gardens by the signs of the zodiac and the phases of the moon.
OFf hand I can't remember if he actually believes in six day creation or not, but he is certainly skeptical of macroevolution, having debated Dawkins on it, and is a proponent of Intelligent design at the very least.
With skeptical scientists ostracized, the public debate and research agenda became dominated by the fat-is-bad school.
Both sides, he says, want to have this debate, he's skeptical that's actually true, but there you go.
