Rantastic.
Great topic Phatz.
I hope I'm not limited to a rant-ratio per day.
I think the skeptick is a highly under-apreciated individual.
I watch a program[me] about ghost-hunting. Every week this pyschic dude comes on the show and
pretends to be posessed by spirits. (I can say pretends as a skeptick de-bunked the bullshitter).
You might guess the show. I won't name names. Anyway, sometimes they hava a live show, and the audience nearly always boohs and whistles down the skeptick, and his evidentially and logically-based suggestions are met with much murmuring and discontent amongst the tumult. So now the skeptick set the psychic up, and planted anagrams into the field of history being investigated in haunted locations. --> Each week the psychic is supposed to get messages from his spirit-guide, and tell us the history of the places they visit, ghost-hunting. So our parapsychologist set up "fake history" and asked someone to discretely pass along this information to the psychic. The anagrams that were supposed to be historical names, were made of statements like "this guy's a bulshitter", "he's a fake", "you're being duped" etc.
So anyway, the psychic, during the show, came up with all the fake planted historical names he thought he was getting from a genuine source, which is highly amusing, and proves what a lying snake he is, as he's most definitely the richest psychic in the country by now, because of this show.
What does this prove? The crowd will heckle the honest skeptick who wants to get at the truth, even if the guys they're desperate to believe in are full of it, and haven't a logical, reasonable or honest bone in their body.