Kneejerk skepticism

Many academics, scientists included, even though they have spent their entire lives training how to avoid pitfalls in thought, are often susceptible to kneejerk skepticism. It is not that we do not have to go through extraordinary lengths to verify and reverify ideas, it is that many people rigidly embrace skepticism so much so that they begin saying "this is wrong, and that is wrong" before they even understand the entire idea. What they are supposed to be doing is reading the whole idea and say "uhuh, uhuh" until they get to the punchline. And then they are supposed to evaluate the idea. In other words, one should be able to explain multiple mutually exclusive cohesive arguments, and then explain why one argument is more likely correct than the others. Unfortunately, they often cannot articulate the arguments they hold in such contempt. Treated with the contempt reserved for that which they do not understand... And it gets worse from there. If someone says that biological evolution is not true, ask them to explain what evolution says, or even how natural selection works. You will get silence. I have. Many woes stem from this bizarre behavior as evidenced by many unnecessary messes in many places. Reality does not deform to fit delusions.