Thinking like a scientist

Today is Michael Shermer's birthday, a famous science skeptic, and author of "Why People Believe Strange Things". One of his quotes really penetrates today: "Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training." I often find myself speaking to people who do not accept scientific facts as facts, nor do they understand that scientists, by nature, are skeptics. But, scientific laws do not waiver in the face of politics. Or, to paraphrase Gwynn Dyer, the second law of thermodynamics does not have a left and right side.