Skepticism isn't the knee-jerk reaction that everything you hear is false, it's the willingness to explore in good faith the possibility that those things are true.
Skepticism doesn't mean throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Just because someone is skeptical of extreme points of view doesn't automatically put them in the other extreme. Quite the opposite, actually.
Uncertainty and doubt are not actually bad. There are a whole lot questions we don't have good answers for, and so we should be comfortable admitting what we don't know. You can keep questions in mind without immediately answering them.
On the other hand there are what I call the "instant experts" who are quick to take sides on something they were ignorant of yesterday, just because they read something about it in the news.
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