But Mr. Barroso said it would "be naïve to think one can reform the treaty only in areas Germany considers important," adding that countries like Britain might try to put their more skeptical ideas into the negotiating pot.
Skeptical ideas have been charged with a family of objections: they might be self-refuting, inconsistent, self-contradictory, and so on (Castagnoli 2010).
All in all, respondents are rather skeptical about ideas involving direct payments or financial incentives for DOD (see Table 2).
In the interview, Haggis recalled being skeptical — "My idea of doing good for my body was smoking low-tar cigarettes" — but said that the Purification Rundown "was WONDERFUL".
It's good to be skeptical, especially about ideas you learn from perceived authority figures.
"Having been on the receiving end of many P.R. calls and pitches — as a magazine editor in my former life — I think I'm particularly demanding and skeptical of P.R. ideas," said Nancy Young Mosny, principal at Q Squared in New York.
He is equally skeptical of "opposition ideas," and happened to be leaving the Red Espresso Bar with a cup of coffee that night and found himself engulfed in a crowd that had gathered to protest election violations.
"In a time of prosperity such as now, the one thing people are more concerned about than anything else is not rocking the boat," said Bruce Bartlett, a former Treasury Department official in the Reagan and Bush administrations, "and they are deeply skeptical of any ideas that seem large because large is seen as risky".
As Stanley Prusiner, Nobel Prize Laureate, said [48], "While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge,….the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms".
In On Religion he is skeptical about the ideas of God and human immortality altogether, arguing that the former is merely optional (to be included in one's religion or not depending on the nature of one's imagination), and that the latter is positively unacceptable.
As the work's description reads, the project is "casting a skeptical light on ideas of "openness," "connection," "breaking boundaries," and other mantras of the tech industry and the corporate architecture of recent decades".
