Well, I wouldn't call myself a nay-sayer exactly, but I'm definitely a skeptic.
One of the hallmarks of us skeptics is that we usually wait for hard evidence before we go believing something. We skeptics are aware of the problems with eye-witness testimony, and so we wait for the real goods.
Cops and CSIs are aware of the problems with eye-witness testimony as well. That's why hard evidence is always best.
Skeptics are not actually as hard to convince as some people would have you believe. Quantum physics makes absolutely no sense, but it's been shown to be true in experiments time and again, and so we believe in quantum mechanics even though it's pretty outrageous if you look into it. Things just have to be demonstrated to be really true before we dive in, or at least the idea has to have pretty good evidence going for it.
For us skeptics, ghost stories just don't make the cut.
Isn't there at least one ghost, somewhere in the world, that would willingly subject itself to scientific examination, or appear when asked while being observed by independent observers in a lab setting?
Perhaps the ghost of scientist, who wants to further our knowledge of the afterlife now that he knows it's real?
Unfortunately, we have yet to meet that ghost.
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