It is easy to see where the scientifically uninitiated would want an easy answer. It is much more convenient to accept my idea as solution and retrogressively develop the means to support it than to use the foreign and difficult to understand scientific process of analysis to come to a conclusion. We often place upon our explanations of events in the universe those solutions to which our ideology and personal philosophy adheres. The discussion is really about investigative paradigms. The scientific method of inquiry is the best method we have to separate our willingness to make our explanation the truth, from actively and impartially seeking the truth.
Skepticism is a positive off-shoot of that seeking.
This is also the statement that is the guiding principle behind The Skeptics Society . The Skeptics Society is a member-supported organization of scholars, scientists, historians, magicians, and the intellectually curious, that sponsors a lecture series at Caltech and publishes the quarterly magazine Skeptic , for the purpose of promoting science and critical thinking, and disseminating information on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, the paranormal, magic, superstition, fringe claims and groups, revolutionary science, protoscience, and the history of science and pseudoscience, in articles, essays, reviews, and letters. I searched the Internet and found to my amazement and great relief that there are dozens of skeptic organizations and publications. One can argue whether psychology is a science. We can however, call it a soft-science.