skeptic
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Ryan Williams: I did not fully believe the hypothesis, and I'm on the record as a prominent skeptic.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
A vaccine skeptic, Kennedy has shared mixed messaging on MMR vaccine, at times endorsing it and other times sharing unproven claims about its safety.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Whether that money will buy new jobs or subsidize existing ones is the open question, said Patrick Button, a film and TV tax incentives skeptic and professor of economics at Tulane University.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Until a few years ago, Levanon was a longtime skeptic of the idea that transformative technologies would sharply boost productivity and speed up the long-term growth of the U.S. economy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Charles felt that if he could explain the evolution of the eye, he could convince even the harshest skeptic that he was right.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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On the other hand, skeptics might believe that granting AI systems moral consideration disempowers humans and wastes resources.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
The reports out of Catalina began about two years after the infamous crash in Roswell, N.M., where the government maintains it recovered a weather balloon, but skeptics say it was a UFO.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
But clubs won over skeptics by balancing modern additions with classic traditions, protecting core products and embracing multi-generational appeal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Lucky for skeptics, Nadira Goffe interviewed a whale biologist about how realistic the film is.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Two thousand souls, believers and skeptics in roughly equal numbers, anxiously waited to hear from Maggie Fox.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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