I hate the term “sceptic”. It is so negative. To me, it invokes the same emotions and images as terms like “miserly” or “recalcitrant”. When I hear the term “sceptic” I have a mental image of someone who has a blinkered view of the world…someone who refuses to see anything outside their own world view. This, of course, is only my view of the term “sceptic”, but I have seen other people use the term “sceptic” to mean just that in online debates. I prefer to call myself a scientist. Not literally. I don’t have a degree in science or anything [...]